Arn(h)old (Preuss)

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Arnold (Preuss)

Arnhold (Preuss)

Settled in the Following Colonies:

Pre-Volga Origin:

Saalfelden, Kr. Zell am See, Salzburg, Austria

Discussion & Documentation:

Johann Arnold, a single belt-maker (Riemer), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.

He settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 15 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 78 along with his new wife Anna Maria.

The 1767 census records that Johann Arnold came from the German village of Saalfelden in the region of Salzburg.

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): Ps05.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 426.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1120.

Contributor(s) to this page:

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies