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Lohmann (Merkel)

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Lohmann (Merkel)
Settled in the Following Colonies
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.

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Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

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Volga Colonies

50.883333, 45.287167
50.55, 45.733333
50.783333, 46.898167

Immigration Locations

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38.883333, -98.85
44.939167, -123.0394
38.840281, -97.611424
37.975278, -100.8641