Kuxhaus(en)

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Kuxhausen
Kuxhaus
Kuxhouse
Куксгаузенъ
Куксгаузъ
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Johann Wilhelm Kuxhausen, an innkeeper (Weinschenk), and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Holstein on 26 May 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 1 where Johann Wilhelm Kuxhausen is noted as the colony's major (Vorsteher).

Johann Jakob Kuxhausen from Holstein and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Oberdorf in Household No. 32.

Johann Adam Kuxhausen from Holstein and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Oberdorf in Household No. 37.

Heinrich Kuxhausen from Holstein and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Rosenberg in Household No. 6.

Georg Adam Kuxhausen from Holstein and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Rosenberg in Household No. 9.

Johann Friedrich Kuxhausen from Holstein and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Rosenberg in Household No. 72.

The 1767 census records that Johann Wilhelm Kuxhausen came from the German town of Bergen.

Descendants of this family also use the surname of Kuxhaus.

Sources: 

- 1857 Oberdorf Census (Household No. 32).
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ho08, Ho12, Ho38.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 125.

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