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Fischer (Fischer)
Фишеръ (Fischer)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Johann Christoph Fischer, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Fischer on 28 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 2. It is after Johann Christoph Fischer that the colony took its name.
The 1767 census records that Johann Christoph Fischer came from the German village of Helmsgrün in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
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): Fs22.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 407.
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