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Kuhn (Balzer)*

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Kuhn (Balzer)*
Кунъ (Balzer)*
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Catharina Kuhn, daughter of Johann Jost Kuhn & Elisabeth Gerd, was baptized in Hüttengesäß on 14 August 1711.

She married 12 June 1727 in Hüttengesäß to Johann Caspar Zieg. [See Zieg Family.]

Katharina Zieg née Kuhn arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 along with her son Philipp.

Katharina Zieg née Kuhn settled in the Volga German colony of Balzer on 1 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 6.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Kuhn family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources

- Hüttengesäß Parish Records.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 73.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3019.

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Brent Mai

Wayne Bonner

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