LeJean
Spelling Variations:
LeJean
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Jacques LeJean, a carpenter (Tischler) and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen on 28 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 16.
The 1767 census records that Jacques LeJean came from the French village of Bellême.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 444.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai