Spelling Variations
Berkl
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Joseph Berkl, a tailor (Schneider), and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Shcherbakovka on 15 June 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 21.
The 1767 census records that Joseph Berkl came from the German village of Dietzen.
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): Sv24.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 250.
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Brent Mai
Pre-Volga Origin
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