Spelling Variations
Girard (Katharinenstadt)*
Жирардъ (Katharinenstadt)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Jean Girard (age 34), a single distiller (Distillateur), is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 193 along with a note that he moved to Moscow in 1779.
The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Jean Girard came from an area of southeast France (Die Dauphine).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Girard family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 193).
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai