Johann Jakob Elsasser, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughters (Jakobina, age 20; Elisabeth, age 18; Dorothea, age 5) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 72.
Jakob Elsasser (age 55), a saddler (Sattler), and his daughter Katharina Elisabeth (age 21) along with Katharina Elisabeth's husband Philipp Schulz (age 24) and their daughter Katharina Dorothea Schulz (age ¼) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 129. [See Schulz Family.]
Jakobina Geiger née Elsasser (age 27) and her family are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 42. [See Geiger Family.]
Daughter Elisabeth Elsasser is recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka032 as the wife of Philipp Schulz from Meinhard.
The 1767 census records that Johann Jakob Elsasser came from the German region of Hessen-Darmstadt. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Jakob Elsasser came from the German village of Brackenheim in the region of Wüttemberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Elsasser family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Households No. 42, 129).
- 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): Ka032.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 217.
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