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Damm (Volmer)

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Damm (Volmer)
Даммъ (Volmer)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation

Konrad Damm, a miller (Müller), and his wife Anna Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Volmer on 18 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 9.

In 1789, Johann Jakob Damm moved from Volmer to Kamenka.

In 1790, widow Anna Maria Damm and her children moved from Volmer to Husaren.

Friedrich Damm from Husaren and his sons are recorded on the 1811 census of Brabander in Household No. 12 along with a note that he had arrived in Brabander in 1804.

The 1767 census records that Konrad Damm came from the German village of Amorbach in the Mainz region.

Sources

- 1811 Brabander Census (Household No. 12).
- 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): Hn16, Km072, Vm31, Mv2921, Mv2929.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 287.

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Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies

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