Kohl (Ober-Monjou)

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Kohl (Ober-Monjou)
Коль (Ober-Monjou)
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Adam Kohl and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.

Adam Kohl, a hunter (Jäger), and his wife Dorothea are recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 27. They had settled there on 23 July 1767.

The 1767 census records that Adam Kohl came from the German village of Gräfenroda (Grafenreuth).

Sources: 

- 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): Om10.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 295.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7009.

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Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

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