Burgholz
Spelling Variations:
Burgholz
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Anton Burgholz, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 June 1766 aboard the ship Die Vergelte Weintraube under the command of Skipper Anderson.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Keller on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 43.
The 1767 census records that Anton Burgholz came from the German village of Kettenbach in the Hessen-Kassel region.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 351.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #785.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai