Christian Springer, a barber (Friseur), and his family arrived in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. Christian, his wife Maria Fietzel, and son Jakob (age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 1.
Christian Springer (age 46), his wife Maria née Fietzel (age 45), and children (Johann, age 21; Wilhelmina Dorothea, age 6) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 32.
Widower Christian Springer (age 70) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka035.
The 1767 census records that Christian Springer came from the German region of Darmstadt; the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that he came from the German town of Darmstadt in the region of Hessen. The 1767 census records that Maria née Fietzel came from the German village of Grünenbrüken [?] in the region of Osenbrück [Osnabrück?]; the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that she came from the German town of Grakenbrüken [?] in the region of Osenbrück [Osnabrück?]. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register also records that son [Johann] Jakob Springer was born in Amsterdam [Holland].
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 32).
- 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): Ka035.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 275.
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