Hirsch (Brabander)
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Hirsch (Brabander)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Kaspar Hirsch, a blacksmith (Schmied), and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Heidemann.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 28 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 13.
The 1767 census records that Kaspar Hirsch came from the German village of Camberg in the Trier region.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 218.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4102.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai