Spelling Variations
Schapf*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Friedrich Schapf, a single craftsman (Handwerker), settled in the Volga German colony of Frank and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 108 along with a note that he's working as a day laborer (Lohnarbeiter).
The 1767 census records that Friedrich Schapf came from the German village of Laudenbach in the Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter.
There are no know surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 437.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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