Spelling Variations
Kóvacs (Fischer)
Kowatsch (Fischer)
Ковачъ (Fischer)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Franz Kóvacs, a farmer, his wife Maria Charlotta and their sons (Johann Friedrich, age 5; Johann Karl, age 2) settled in the Volga German colony of Fischer on 28 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 14.
The 1767 census records that Franz Kóvacs came from the Hungarian village of Waszirge [?].
Sources
- 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): Fs39.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 411.
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Brent Mai
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