Fritz (Krasnoyar-2)

Spelling Variations: 
Fritz (Krasnoyar-2)
Фрицъ (Krasnoyar-2)
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Caspar Fritz & Anna Maria Baÿer, both from Gunterskirchen [Gonterskirchen], were married 26 May 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.

Kaspar Fritz, a farmer, and his wife Anna Dorothea [Krieger] settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 98.

The 1767 census records that Kaspar Fritz came from the German region of Laubach.

Sources: 

- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ks036.
- 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): #665.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 442.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies