Spelling Variations
Geiss (Norka)
Гейсъ (Norka)
Geiß (Norka)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Georg Geiß, his wife Anna Barbara, and daughter Gertrude (age 1) are recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 202.
They are recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr212 [erroneously surname is spelled as Gies].
The death of Georg Geiss in 1809 is recorded on the 1811 census of Norka in Household No. 213.
Sources
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 202).
- 1811 Norka Census (Household No. 213).
- 1834 Norka Census (Household No. 206).
- 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): Nr212.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai