Nikolaus Jäger, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Mariental on 16 June 1766.
Nikolaus Jäger, his wife Maria Anna, and daughters (Maria Elisabeth, age 12; Margaretha, age 10) are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 2.
Margaretha Jäger and her family (by marriages to Joseph Sommer and Friedrich Hildt) are recorded on the 1798 census of Mariental in Household No. Mt81.
The parish register of Mariental records that Nikolaus Jeger died in Mariental on 22 March 1796.
The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Jäger came from the German village of Steinheim in the Kurmainz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Jäger family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Mt81.
- Parish register of Mariental.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 95.
Brent Mai
Anna Plehve Kasterina
Entry in the parish register of Mariental recording the death of Nicolaus Jeger on 22 March 1796.
Source: Anna Plehve Kasterina.
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