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Kunkel (Unknown)*
Кункель (Unknown)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Widower Johannes Kunkel, a teacher (Lehrer), and his children (Johannes, age 22; Maria, age 14) are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 121) appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Kunkel came from the German village of Leibi.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kunkel family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 373.
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Brent Mai
Pre-Volga Origin
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