Joseph Köhler, a hunter (Jäger), his wife Maria, and children (Franz, age 22; Johann, age 19; Johann [again], age 17; Anna, age 10) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 35 along with a note that they settled in the colony of Katharinenstadt in 1768.
The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records in Household No. 8:
Karl August Köhler (age 21), a farmer (Ackermann)
wife: Christina Vogan [sic] (age 27)
daughter: Anna Dorothea (born 11 February 1777)
brothers: Franz (age 27 - deserted); Johann Ludwig (age 19)
sister: Sophia (age 11)
Johann Ludwig Köhler and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka022.
Anna Sophia Katharina Weiss née Köhler and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka028.
Karl Friedrich [sic] Köhler and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka085.
The 1767 census records that Joseph Köhler came from the German region of Böhmen (Bohemia).
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register (Household No. 8).
- 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): Ka022, Ka028, Ka085.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 330.
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