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Kitschler (Paulskaya)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Johann [Georg] Kitschler, his wife Katharina, and children (Anna, age 5; Johann, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Paulskaya on 23 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 75.
The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Kitschler came from the German village of Marburg in the Hessen region.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 349.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4699.
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