Spelling Variations
Malbe*
Мальбе*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Gottlieb Malbe (age 37), a Prussian Lieutenant (Preussischer Leutenant), and his wife Theresia [surname not recorded] (age 40) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 190 along with a note that they are in Simbirsk.
The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Gottlieb Malbe came from the German village of Kothen in the region of Anhalt-Böhmen (Bohemia).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Malbe family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 190).
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai