Spelling Variations
Huber (Louis)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Lorenz Huber, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Louis on 14 June 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 6.
In 1782, Lorenz Hubert and his family moved to Moscow.
The 1767 census records that Lorenz Huber came from the German village of Eckenfein in Bayern (Bavaria).
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): Mv1559.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 81.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai