Spelling Variations
Kretz (Schäfer)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Rudolph Kretz, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Anna Dorothea settled in the Volga German colony of Schäfer on 1 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 17.
The 1767 census records that Rudolph Kretz came from the German village of Nieste [?] in the Darmstadt region.
There are no known surviving male descendants of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 93.
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