Heinrich Sitzinger, a blacksmith (Schmied), and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof on 12 February 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 53.
In 1795, the marriage of Susanna Margaretha Sitzinger, daughter of Heinrich Sitzinger, to someone in Dietel is recorded on the Movement Table that accompanies the 1798 census of Dönhof. She actually married Gottlieb Gergins in Kratzke (which was part of the Dietel parish).
The 1767 census reocrds that Heinrich Sitzinger came from the German region of Hannover.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Kr12, Mv0503.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 355.
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