Andreas Grünewald (age 32), a farmer, his wife Appolonia Brückmann (age 32), children (Maria Anna, age 6; Catharina, age 5; Caspar, age 4; Christoph, age 1), and his mother Eva Rosina Grünewald (age 50) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms.
Andreas Grünewald, a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Schuck on 18 July 1766. He and his family are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 2.
The 1798 census records that this Grünewald family is living in the colony of Franzosen.
Between 1816 and 1834, Jakob Heinrich Grünewald and his family moved from Franzosen to Husaren.
Jakob Heinrich Grünewald from Franzosen and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kamenka in Household No. 135.
Between 1816 and 1834, Andreas Grünewald and his family along with his brothers Johannes & Johann Simon moved from Franzosen to Kamenka.
Between 1816 and 1834, Johann Baptist Grünewald and his brother Joseph moved from Franzosen to Louis.
Between 1816 and 1834, Franz Grünewald moved from Franzosen to Köhler.
Brothers Johannes & Jakob Grünewald from Kamenka and their families are recorded on the 1857 census of Josefstal in Household No. 21.
The 1765 Worms list records that Andreas Grünewald came from the German village of Flein. The 1767 census records that Andreas Grünewald came from the German village of Lampertheim.
- 1834 Kamenka Census (Household No. 135).
- 1857 Josefstal Census (Household No. 21).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 128-129 (#385-391).
- 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): Fz01, Fz04, Fz34, Fz39.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 111.
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