A researcher reports on the wolgadeutsche.net blog that Kaspar Seibert was born 1 April 1746 in Dinkelsbühl (Schwaben). His parents are recorded there as Johann Kaspar Seibert (a baker & distiller; born 17 January 1717; died 13 February 1761) & Anna Christina Hochleiter from Michelbach (whose father owned a tavern).
Kaspar Seibert, a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 5 along with his new wife Anna Elisabeth.
Kaspar Seibert (age 26), a baker (Bäcker), his wife Anna Elisabeth née Leitner (age 24), and children (Nikolaus, age 7; Anton, age 5; Christian, age ¼) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 123 along with a note that an additional son Philipp was born in 1778.
In 1786, Kaspar Siebert and his family moved from Katharinenstadt to the Caucasus. His sons returned and settled in Biberstein.
Both the 1767 census and the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register record that Kaspar Seibert came from the German village of Dunkelspühl in the region of Schwaben (Swabia) and his wife came from the German village of Vollingen in the Braunschweig region.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 123).
- 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): Ka141, Bb39, Mv1184.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 276.
Brent Mai