Knauf (Schuck)*
Spelling Variations:
Knauf (Schuck)*
Кнауфъ (Schuck)*
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Johann Knauf, a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Schuck on 18 July 1766. He, his wife Anna Maria, and son Johann Jakob (age 1) are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 24.
Jakob Knauf remarried in 1804 to Elisabeth Schmidt.
The death of Jakob Knauf is recorded on 24 April 1808 on the Rohleder Parish Register.
The 1767 census records that Johann Knauf came from the German village of Grünstadt in in the Kurpfalz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Knauf family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Parish register of Rohleder.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 115.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai