März / Mertz (Reinhard)
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Mertz (Reinhard)
März (Reinhard)
Мерцъ (Reinhard)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Johannes Mertz and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Reinhard. Johannes died and his widow, Elisabeth, remarried to Johann David Klinger.
The combined Klinger/Mertz families are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 29.
The 1767 census records that Elisabeth Mertz came from the German village of Flor [Florstadt?] in the region of Isenburg.
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): Rh01.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 27.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai
Immigrated to the following locations: