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Berge
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Nikolaus Berge, a farmer, and his wife Eva are recorded on the 1767 census of Philippsfeld in Household No. 8. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.
In 1769, Nikolaus Berge and his family moved from Philippsfeld to Zürich.
The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Berge came from the German village of Küchen bei Waldkappel.
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): Mv2283.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 405.
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