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Köhler / Keller (Balzer-2)

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Köhler (Balzer-2)
Keller (Balzer-2)
Келеръ (Balzer-2)
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Johann Kaspar Köhler, son of Stephan Köhler & Anna Margaretha Niedhardt, was baptized on 28 February 1734 in Hüttengesäß. [See Niedhardt Family.]

Kaspar Köhler, farmer, his new wife Anna Barbara [née Rudel, widow of Philipp Habermann], and [step-]children (Johann Kaspar [Habermann], age 18; Anna Christina [Habermann], age 16; Philipp [Habermann], age 13; Johannes [Habermann], age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Balzer in Household No. 96. They had settled there on 1 July 1767. [See Habermann Family.]

The widow and children of Kaspar Köhler are recorded on the 1798 census of Balzer in Household No. Bz084.

The 1767 census records that Kaspar Köhler came from the German region of Isenburg.

Sources

- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Bz084.
- Parish register of Hüttengesäß.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 96.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3011.

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Brent Mai

Wayne Bonner

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