Charles*
Spelling Variations:
Charles*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Joseph Charles, a carpenter (Zimmermann) and soldier (Soldat), and his wife Elisabeth Müller settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 126.
The 1767 census records that Joseph Charles came from the village of Baronville in Luxembourg and that Elisabeth Müller came from the German village of Erlangen in the Bayreuth region.
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): 303.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai