Spelling Variations
Martensheim*
Мартенсгеймъ*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Widow Katharina Martensheim and her sons (Johannes, age 22; Peter, age 12; Anton, age 9; Wilhelm, age 6) are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 104) appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The 1767 census records that Katharina Martensheim came from the German village of Nanenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Martensheim family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 369.
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Brent Mai
Pre-Volga Origin
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