Lempke

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Lemke
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Lempke
Lempka
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Joachim Lemke [sic], a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Katharina, and son Adam (age 2-weeks) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 46 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Orlovskaya in 1768.

In 1797, Gottfried Lemke [sic] moved from Orlovskaya to Paulskaya.

Gottfried Lemke [sic] and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Paulskaya in Household No. Pl12.

Gottfried Lempke and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 61.

Gottfried Lempke and his family are recorded on the 1850 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 83.

The death of Gottfried Lempke in 1855 is recorded on the 1857 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 94.

The 1767 census records that Joachim Lemke [sic] came from the German region of Rostock.

Sources: 

- 1834 Paulskaya Census (Household No. 61).
- 1850 Paulskaya Census (Household No. 83).
- 1857 Paulskaya Census (Household No. 94).
- 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): Pl12, Mv2193.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 170.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Volga Colonies