Funk (Nieder-Monjou-1)

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Funk (Nieder-Monjou-1)
Функъ (Nieder-Monjou-1)
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Johann Heinrich Funck [sic], a grave marker smith (Grabschmidt [sic]) from the area of Darmstadt, & Anna Maria Müller from the area of Hessen-Darmstadt were married on 20 August 1766 in Pastor Bruns's house in Lübeck. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.

Heinrich Funk, a blacksmith (Schmied), and his wife Maria are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 63.

Heinrich Funk is recorded on the 1798 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. Nm17.

The 1767 census records that Heinrich Funk came from the German village of Steinfurth in the Friedberg region.

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): Nm17.
- 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): #285.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 173.

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Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies