Spelling Variations
Kuntz (Jost)*
Kunz (Jost)*
Кунцъ (Jost)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Johann Michael Kunz, a carpenter (Zimmermann), his wife Dorothea, and daughter Maira Christina (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Jost in Household No. 50. They had settled there on 19 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Johann Michael Kunz came from the German village of Winterbach in the Schwaben (Swabia) region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kunz family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 206.
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Brent Mai