Spelling Variations
Klunk
Клункъ
Klunck
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Johann Michael Klunk, a farmer, his wife Anna Christina, and children (Anna Elisabeth, age 10; Susanna Margaretha, age 5; Johannes Andreas, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schäfer in Household No. 18. They had arrived in Schäfer on 1 August 1766.
The 1767 census records that Johann Michael Klunk came from the German village of Birkenfeld in the Zweibrücken region.
Sources
- 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): Pp12, Sf05.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 93.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai
Immigrated to the following locations
Pre-Volga Origin
49.65, 7.183333
Volga Colonies
51.530196, 46.614074
Immigration Locations
43.750828, -87.71453
48.69, -97.178056
44.519159, -88.019826