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Haag (Hölzel-1)*

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Haag (Hölzel-1)*
Гаагъ (Hölzel-1)*
Гагъ (Hölzel-1)*
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Discussion & Documentation

Andreas Hack [sic], a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and children (Kunigunda, age 4; Paul, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Diana under the command of Skipper Markus Draguhn.

Andreas Haag, a farmer, his wife Walburga, and daughter Margaretha (age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Hölzel in Household No. 53. They had settled there on 11 September 1767.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Hack [sic] came from the German region of Bayern (Bavaria). The 1767 census records that Andreas Haag came from the German village of Migeren [?] in Bayern.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources

- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 705.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 122.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5633.

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