Hofesass
Spelling Variations:
Hofesass
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Stephan Hofesass, a farmer, and his wife Dorothea Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Kamenka on 6 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 47.
The 1767 census records that Stephan Hofessas came from the German village of Roding.
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): Km041.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 227.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai