Johann Karl Klaus and his wife Margaretha are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 118 along with a number of other families who settled in the colony of Näb.
Orphan Johannes Klaus (age 12), presumed to be a son of Johann Karl Klaus, is recorded on the 1798 census of Näb in Household No. Nb35 along with Johannes Schreiber and his family. A note on the 1798 census records that Johannes Klaus is living in the colony of Kind.
The 1767 census records that Johann Karl Klaus came from the German village of Hohenfriedeberg in the region of Schlesien (Silesia).
- 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): Nb35.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 374.
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