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Höfner (Kukkus)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Nikolaus Höfner, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Kukkus.
They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 23 along with Anna Maria Houg, the surviving daughter of Daniel Houg.
The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Höfner came from the German village of Löhnfeld near Kurpfalz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Höfner family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Kukkus Website (www.kukkus.com) - Origins
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 467.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai
Rick Felsing
Pre-Volga Origin
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