Koleber

Spelling Variations: 
Koleber
Kohleiber
Kolleber
Kohlieber
Колеберъ
Kohleber
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Three Kolebers were from the Volga German colony of Hussenbach. They are believed to be siblings: Gottlieb, Katharina, and Konrad.

Katharina Koleber (wife of Johann Georg Pfalz) and her brother Konrad Koleber are recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. Hs031.

Konrad Koleber is recorded on the 1811 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 31 along with anote that he left Hussenbach in 1808 for an illegible location. He is not recorded in any of the Volga German colonies on the 1834 census.

In 1788, widow Eva Barbara Koleber and her children moved from Hussenbach to Kratzke.

Barbara née Dahlinger, widow of Gottlieb Koleber from Hussenbach, and their children are recorded on the 1798 census of Kratzke in Household No. Kr12.

Michael Koleber and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Bauer in Household No. 109.

Georg Jakob Koleber, son of Michael Koleber, and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Bauer in Household No. 108.

Sources: 

- 1811 Husenbach Census (Household No. 31).
- 1834 Bauer Census (Household No. 109).
- 1857 Bauer Census (Household No. 108).
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Hs031, Kr12, Mv1052.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

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