Spelling Variations
Zaper*
Цеперъ*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Johann Zaper, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Leitsinger on 15 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 72.
The 1767 census records that Johann Zaper came from the German village of Külsheim in the Bamberg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Zaper family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 76.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai