Spelling Variations
Kohler (Degott)*
Koller (Degott)*
Колеръ (Degott)*
Коллеръ (Degott)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Johannes Kohler, a mason (Maurer), and his wife Christina settled in the Volga German colony of Degott on 18 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 7.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Kohler came from the German village of Schlettstadt in the Alsace region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kohler family among the Volga German colonies.
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): Dg07.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 264.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai