Adam Kordelje, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Bauer on 1 March 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 52.
Adam Kordelje and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br16.
The 1767 census records that Adam Kordelje came from the German village of Punscht in the Darmstadt region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kordelje family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Br16.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 129.
Brent Mai