Hauf

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Hauf
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Samuel Gottlieb Hauf, a single weaver (Weber), settled in the Volga German colony of Kratzke on 8 May 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 49 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Merkel in 1768.

The death of Samuel Hauf in 1832 is recorded on the 1834 census of Merkel in Household No. 48.

In 1827, Johann Martin Hauf moved from Merkel to Kratzke. Johann Martin Hauf from Merkel is recorded on the 1834 census of Kratzke in Household No. 50.

The 1767 census records that Samuel Gottlieb Hauf came from the German village of Ero [?] in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).

Sources: 

- 1834 Kratzke Census (Household No. 50).
- 1834 Merkel Census (Households No. 26, 48, 57).
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Mr04.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 460.

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Brent Mai

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