Lotz (Näb)
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Lotz (Näb)
Лотцъ (Näb)
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Johann Georg Lotz and his wife Anna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 25.
In 1798, Karl Lotz and his family moved from Näb to Meinhard.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Lotz was a miner from Hessen. The 1767 census records that he was a farmer from the German village of Nannhausen in the Hessen 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): Mn38, Nb25, Mv1855.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 268.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai