Spelling Variations
Lampe (Merkel)*
Лампе (Merkel)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Johann Kaspar Lampe, a chimney sweeper (Schornsteinfeger), settled in the Volga German colony of Merkel on 28 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 16.
The 1767 census records that Johann Kaspar Lampe came from Hamburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Lampe family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Mr17.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 122.
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