Spelling Variations
Klein (Göbel)*
Клейнъ (Göbel)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Jakob Klein, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Göbel on 25 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 76.
The 1767 census records that Jakob Klein came from the German region of Hanau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Klein family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 58.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai