Spelling Variations
Beier (Schäfer)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Wilhelm Beier and his wife Elisabeth Briegemann are recorded on the 1798 census of Schäfer in Household No. Sf19.
There is a Johann Beier and his wife Elisabeth who are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 48.
The 1767 census records that this Johann Beier came from the German village of Gönnheim.
There are no known surviving male descendants of this Beier family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Sf19.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 272.
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