François Marchand, a butcher (Boucher, age 32), and his unnamed wife, a seamstress (Couturière, age 23), are recorded on a list of French colonists dated September 1764.
François Marchand, a butcher (Fleischer), and his wife Maria Gertrude settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen on 28 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 9.
The 1764 list of colonists records that François Marchand came from the French region of Lyon and that his wife came from the region of Liège. The 1767 census records that François Marchand came from the French town of Lyon.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas & Georg Rauschenbach. Die "Berufer": Abenteurer der Aufklärung in Katharinas II. Kolonisierungsprojekt (Moscow, 2019): 41.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 443.
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