Spelling Variations
Klein (Katharinenstadt)*
Клейнъ (Katharinenstadt)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Julianna [Klein] (age 9) arrived in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. She is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 107 along with her sister Margaretha née Klein and brother-in-law Kaspar Wagner. [See Wagner Family.]
Orphan Julianna Klein (age 18) is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 205 along with a note that the is living in the household of Kaspar Wagner.
The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Julianna Klein came from the German village of Schierstein near Usingen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Klein family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 205).
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai