Litauer*
Spelling Variations:
Litauer*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Andreas Litauer, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Rosine, and daughter Louise (age 9-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Ernestinendorf on 3 August 1767 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Biberstein in 1768.
They had settled in Ernestinendorf on 3 August 1767. The 1767 census records that Andreas Litauer came from the German village of Preetz [?].
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): 396.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai