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Flohr (Kamenka)

Spelling Variations
Flohr (Kamenka)
Флоръ (Kamenka)
Flör (Kamenka)
Flahr
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation

John Michael Flohr, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Eleonora, Christian, & Johann Gottlieb) settled in the Volga German colony of Kamenka on 10 September 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 58.

In 1795, Christian Flohr and his family moved from Kamenka to Neu-Kolonie.

Nikolaus Flör from Kamenka and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Marienfeld.

Martin Flohr from Kamenka is recorded on the 1857 census of Josefstal in Household No. 94.

The 1767 census records that Johann Michael Flohr came from the village of Brix.

Sources

- 1857 Josefstal Census (Household No. 94).
- 1857 Marienfeld Census.
- 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): Km082, Nk34, Mv1117.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 230.

Contributor(s) to this page

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies

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Immigration Locations

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