Litzhauer

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Litzhauer
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Kaspar Litzhauer, a farmer, his wife Magdalena [Kertzinger], and children (Franz, age 15; Magdalena, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Göbel on 20 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 27.

The 1767 census records that Kaspar Litzhauer came from the German village of Zellingen in the Würzburg region.

Sources: 

- 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): Gb26.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 45.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1801.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies