Spelling Variations
Holstein (Merkel)*
von Holstein (Merkel)*
Гольштейнъ (Merkel)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Karl Wilhelm von Holstein, a Polish nobleman, and his wife Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Merkel on 28 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 44.
The 1767 census records that Karl Wilhelm von Holstein came from the German region of Mecklenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Holstein family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 128.
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