Spelling Variations
Dietz (Kamenka)
Дицъ (Kamenka)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Philipp Dietz, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and children (Johann Adam, age 20; Anna Margaretha, age 3; Katharina, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kamenka in Household No. 6. They had arrived in Kamenka on 6 July 1765.
The 1767 census records that Philipp Dietz came from the German village of Alzey.
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): Km070.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 217.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai