Berger (Schuck)
Johann Wendel Berger (age 33), a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Eva Barbara Jacobs (age 25) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 21 September 1765.
Wendel Berger, a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Schuck on 18 July 1766. He and his family are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 16.
Jakob Berger, son of Wendel Berger, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schuck in Household No. Su09.
The death of Jakob Berger in 1819 is recorded on the 1834 census of Schuck in Household No. 26.
The 1765 Worms list records that Johann Wendel Berger came from the German village of Erbach. The 1767 census records that Wendel Berger came from the German village of Laudenbach in the Kurpfalz region.
- 1834 Schuck Census (Households No. 26, 27, 58, 62, 69).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 126 (#322-323).
- 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): Su09.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 114.
Brent Mai