Spelling Variations
Holzvogt
Гольцфогтъ
Holzfogt
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Friedrigh Holzvogt, a wagon maker (Wagenbauer), his wife Anna, and daughter Elisabeth (age 2-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 153. They had settled there on 17 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Friedrich Holzvogt came from the German village of Parchim in the Mecklenburg region.
Sources
- 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): Ka140.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 308.
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