Baron (Kamenka)

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Baron (Kamenka)
Баронъ (Kamenka)
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Anton Baron, a farmer, and his wife Maria Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Kamenka on 6 October 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 16.

The 1834 census of Pfeifer records in Household No. 145 that Michael Baron moved from Kamenka to Pfeifer in 1825.

The 1767 census records that Anton Baron came from the German region of Salzburg.

Sources: 

- 1834 Pfeifer Census (Household No. 145).
- 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): Km060.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 219.

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