Spelling Variations
Mainz (Katharinenstadt)*
Майнцъ (Katharinenstadt)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Peter Mainz, a single silversmith (Silberschmied), settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 211.
The 1767 census records that Peter Mainz came from the German region of Löwenstein.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Mainz family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 319.
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Brent Mai