Spelling Variations
Foos (Volmer)*
Фусъ (Volmer)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Michael Foos, a farmer, his wife Gertrude, and daughter Maria (age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 30. They had settled there on 18 July 1767.
The 1767 census records that Michael Foos came from the German village of Alzey in the Kurpfalz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Foos family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 290.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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