Spelling Variations
Meltzer
Melzer
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Johann Gottlieb Melzer, a tailor (Schneider), and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Holstein on 26 May 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 13.
The 1767 census records that Johann Gottlieb Melzer came from the German village of Kretz in Sachsen (Saxony).
Sources
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ho17.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 128.
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Brent Mai
Immigrated to the following locations
Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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Immigration Locations
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