Jean Meudec is recorded on a list of colonists dated May 1765.
Jean Medeque, a cook (Koch), and his wife Charlotte Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen on 29 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 68.
The 1765 list of colonists records that Jean Meudec came from the French village of Guinsonee on Bretagne. The 1767 census records that Jean Medeque came from the French village of Derne [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas & Georg Rauschenbach. Die "Berufer": Abenteurer der Aufklärung in Katharinas II. Kolonisierungsprojekt (Moscow, 2019): 48.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 455.
Brent Mai
Pre-Volga Origin
no results
Volga Colonies
Immigration Locations
No results