Spelling Variations
Thomas (Katharinenstadt)
Томасъ (Katharinenstadt)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Heinrich Thomas, an ore miner (Erzbergbauarbeiter), his wife Anna, and her children (Nikolaus Kohl, age 14; Herbert Kohl, age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 87. They had arrived there on 27 August 1766.
Widow Anna née Gurtch [?] (widow Kohl & widow Thomas) and her sons (Nikolaus Kohl, age 21; Hubert Kohl, age 19) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 92. [See Kohl Family.]
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Thomas came from the [Dutch] village of Amersfoort.
Sources
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 92).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 295.
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