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Schamber (Beauregard)

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Schamber (Beauregard)
Шамберъ (Beauregard)
Schambers
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Johann Wolf Schamber, a miller (Müller), his wife Katharina, and children (Maria, age 1; Johann, age 10-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 30. They had settled there on 27 August 1766.

In 1786, Johann Wolf Schamber and his family moved from Beauregard to Grimm.

In 1795, widow Maria Eva Schamber and her children moved from Degott to Schuck.

Michael Schamber from Beauregard and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Degott in Household No. Dg04.

Michael Schamber and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Degott in Household No. 1.

The widow and children of Johann Schamber from Degott are recorded on the 1798 census of Schuck in Household No. Su21.

Friedrich Schamber, son of Johann Schamber, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Louis in Household No. 17.

The 1897 census of Degott records in Household No. 37 that Johannes Peter Schamber and his brother Lorenz Schamber are in the colony of Dietel.

The 1897 census of Degott records in Household No. 39 that Jakob Schamber and his sister Katharina Schamber are in the colony of Sewald.

The 1897 census of Degott records in Household No. 62 that the family of Wilhelm Schamber is in the colony of Bauer.

The 1767 census records that Johann Wolf Schamber came from the German village of Wambach.

Sources

- 1834 Degott Census (Household No. 1).
- 1834 Louis Census (Households No. 5, 17).
- 1897 Degott Census (Households No. 37, 39, 61).
- 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): Dg04, Su21, Mv0175, Mv0372.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 185.

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