Johann Friedrich Endlich, a weaver (Weber), settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 205.
Friedrich Endlich (age 30), a single stocking weaver (Strümpfweber), is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 186.
In 1775, Friedrich Endlich moved from Katharinenstadt to Penza.
Both the 1767 census and the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register record that Johann Friedrich Endlich came from the German village of Johanngeorgenstadt in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 186).
- 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): Mv1166.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 318.
Brent Mai