Jakob Flath, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Anna Maria, and children (Johann Prinsis [?], age 13; Anna Katharina, age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dobrinka in Household No. 41. They had settled in Dobrinka on 15 April 1765.
Nikolaus Flath, presumed son of Jakob Flath, and his wife Anna Dahlinger are recorded on the 1798 census of Dobrinka in Household No. Db79 along with a note that he is working in Galka.
The death of Nikolaus Flath in 1832 is recorded on the 1834 census of Dobrinka in Household No. 23.
The 1767 census records that Jakob Flath came from the German town of Danzig.
- 1834 Dobrinka Census (Household No. 23).
- 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): Db79.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 324.
Brent Mai