Spelling Variations
Deis (Graf)*
Дейсъ (Graf)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Barbara Deis (age 9) and her sister Katharina (age 5) are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 35 along with their stepfather, Friedrich Kunz. They had arrived in Graf on 10 June 1766.
The 1767 census does not record from where the Deis sisters came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Deis family among the Volga German colonies.
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): Gf12, Gf25.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 68.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai