Pierre Gene [sic], a plowman (laboureur), age 21, and his unnamed wife, a seamstress (couturière), age 33, are recorded on a list of French colonists dated September 1764.
Pierre Jean, a blacksmith (Schmied), and his wife Marilis settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen on 28 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 20.
The 1764 list of colonists records that Pierre Gene [sic] came from the French city of Paris and that his wife came from the German region of Brandenburg. The 1767 census records that Pierre Jean came from the French city of Paris.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Jean family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas & Georg Rauschenbach. Die "Berufer": Abenteurer der Aufklärung in Katharinas II. Kolonisierungsprojekt (Moscow, 2019): 42.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 445.
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