Lohmann (Merkel)
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Lohmann (Merkel)
Discussion & Documentation:
Johann Lohmann, a weaver (Weber), and his wife Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Merkel on 28 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 18.
The 1767 census records that Johann Lohmann came from Brandenburg.
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): Mr07, Ml14.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 123.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai
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