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Loos (Zürich)

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Loos (Zürich)
Лосъ (Zürich)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation

Johann Peter Loos, a farmer, and his brother Andreas (age 13) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 62.

In 1780, Johann Peter Loos moved from Kind to St. Petersburg.

The 1798 census of Kind records Andreas Loos from Zürich in Household No. Kd23.

The death of Andreas Loos in 1825 is recorded on the 1834 census of Kind in Household No. 4.

The 1767 census records that Johann Peter Loos came from the German village of Stockhausen.

Sources

- 1834 Kind Census (Household No. 4).
- 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): Kd23, Mv1283.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 274.

Contributor(s) to this page

Brent Mai

Immigrated to the following locations

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies

51.898, 47.175333
51.8035, 46.983667

Immigration Locations