Jakob DeVennes, a single candle maker (Ferzenmacher), settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 184.
Jayue [sic] de Vennes, a single wax bleacher (Wachsbleicher), is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 194 along with a note that he has been beurlaubt [on leave] in Moscow since 1771.
Both the 1767 census and the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register record that Jakob DeVennes came from the French town of Paris.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 194).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 314.
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