Spelling Variations
Antone
Antoni
Antony
Антони
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Georg Antony, an officer (Offizier), his wife Eleonora (age 39), and son Thomas (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Herzog in Household No. 5. They had arrived in Herzog on 14 July 1766.
The 1798 census of Mariental records Thomas Antone from Herzog in Household No. Mt21.
The 1767 census records that Georg Antony came from the German village of Busendorf [probably in the historical region of Lothringen].
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): Mt21, Mt54.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 88.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai