Amen (Hölzel)

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Amen (Hölzel)
Аменъ (Hölzel)
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Georg Amen, his wife Sabina, and daughters (Barbara, age 17; Barbara [again], age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Heinrich Sager.

Georg Amer [sic], his wife Sabina, and daughters (Barbara, age 18; Barbara [again], age 1) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Hölzel on 11 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 19.

The 1767 census records that Georg Amen came from the German village of Reichenbach in the Bamberg region.

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): Hz30.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 113.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): # 6200.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7761-7764.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies