Spelling Variations
LeFevre*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Jean Baptiste LeFevre, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his wife Maria Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen on 1 September 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 60.
The 1767 census records that Jean Baptiste LeFevre came from Austria.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 454.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai