Spelling Variations
Knaub (Merkel)
Кнаубъ (Merkel)
Кнаупъ (Merkel)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Johann Ludwig Knaub and his widowed mother Anna Maria Dorothea immigrated to Russia.
The widow Knaub remarried to Johann Heinrich Böse and the Böse/Knaub family settled in the Volga German colony of Merkel on 28 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 30.
In 1845, Georg Philipp Knaub moved from Merkel to Kratzke.
Sources
- 1850 Kratzke Census (Household No. 82).
- 1857 Kratzke Census (Household No. 79).
- 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): Mr16.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 126.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai