Wilhelm Kunst, a hunter (Jäger), and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Graf on 14 February 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 43.
In 1786, widower Wilhelm Kunst moved from Reinhard to Graf.
Wilhelm Kunst and his [new] wife Barbara Beier are recorded on the 1798 census of Graf in Household No. Gf42.
The 1767 census records that Wilhelm Kunst came from the German village of Kail in the Kurpfalz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kunst family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Gf42, Mv2380.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 70.
Brent Mai
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