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Töwers*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Berns Töwers, a gardener (Gärtner), and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 86.
The 1767 census records that Berns Töwers came from the German village of Paderborn.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 294.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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