Ludwig (Laub)*

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Ludwig (Laub)*
Людвигъ (Laub)*
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Johann Ludwig, a baker (Bäcker), and his wife Anna are recorded on the 1767 census of Laub in Household No. 40. They had settled there on 5 September 1767.

The 1767 census records that Johann Ludwig came from the German village of Saryhausen [?] in the Württemberg region.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Ludwig family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources: 

- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 29.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Volga Colonies