Dimm*

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Dimm*
Димъ*
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Georg Ludwig Dim & Anna Maria Hiebler were married on 20 May 1766 in Roßlau.

Ludwig Demm [sic], a cooper (Fassbinder) and his wife Anna Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 5 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 103.

Ludwig Dimm and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Brabander in Household No. Bn42.

The deaths of Ludwig Dimm in 1807 and his son Andreas in 1808 are recorded on the 1811 census of Brabander in Household No. 42.

The 1767 census records that Ludwig Demm came from the German village of Ludwigsburg in the Württemberg region.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources: 

- 1811 Brabander Census (Household No. 42).
- 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): Bn42.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #979.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 236.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies