Spelling Variations
Kloss (Kukkus)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Wilhelm Kloss, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a koff named Alette under the command of Skipper Wybe Hendricks.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kukkus on 26 June 1767 where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 50.
The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Holzhausen near Braunfels.
Sources
- Kukkus Website (www.kukkus.com) - Origins
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 472.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3559.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai
Rick Felsing
Pre-Volga Origin
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