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Bast (Katharinenstadt)

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Bast (Katharinenstadt)
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Discussion & Documentation

Johannes Bast, a single tailor (Schneider), settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 198.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Bast came from the German village of Alsfeld in the Hessen region.

Sources

- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 316.

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Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies

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