Spelling Variations
LeGagne*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Nikolaus LeGagne, a merchant (Kaufmann), his wife Eva Margaretha, and their son Jean (age 10) settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen on 16 May 1766. they are recorded there on the 1767 census along with a new-born daughter Elisabeth (age ½) in Household No. 36.
The 1767 census records that Nikolaus LeGagne came from the French village of Bacqueville.
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): 449.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai