Jurk (Reinwald)
Spelling Variations:
Jurk (Reinwald)
Yurk (Reinwald)
York (Reinwald)
Юркъ (Reinwald)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Georg Jurk, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Reinwald on 14 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 43.
The 1767 census records that Georg Jurk came from the German village of Lippen in Sachsen (Saxony).
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): Rw29, Rw37.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 41.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai
Immigrated to the following locations: