Spelling Variations
Knetzer*
Кнецеръ*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Melchior Knetzer, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Galka on 1 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 18.
The 1767 census records that Melchior Knetzer came from the German village of Michelfeld.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 24.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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