Spelling Variations
Förster (Merkel)*
Ферстеръ (Merkel)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Andreas Förster, a single gardner (Gärtner), settled in the Volga German colony of Merkel on 28 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 40.
The 1767 census records that Andreas Förster came from the German village of Halbstadt in Prussia.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Förster family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 128.
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Brent Mai