Kohl (Laub)

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Kohl (Laub)
Коль (Laub)
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Johann Kohl, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Friedrich, age 10; Valentin, age 5-days) are recorded on the 1767 census of Laub in Household No. 55 along with his wife's sister Katharina Magdalena [surname not recorded] (age 16).

Friedrich Kohl and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb51.

Valentin Kohl, son of Friedrich Kohl, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb32.

Valentin Kohl and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Laub in Household No. 32.

Johann Georg Kohl, son of Friedrich Kohl, is recorded on the 1811 census of Laub in Household No. 32 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Bangert in 1799.

Johann Georg Kohl is recorded on the 1811 census of Bangert in Household No. 8, having arrived from Laub in 1799.

The 1767 census records that Johann Kohl came from the German village of Kudenschburg in the Hessen-Kassel region.

Sources: 

- 1811 Bangert Census (Household No. 8).
- 1811 Laub Census (Household No. 32).
- 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): Lb03, Lb32, Lb51.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 33.

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