Spelling Variations
Merkel (Unknown-1)*
Меркель (Unknown-1)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Widow Katharina Merkel is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 131.
It is not known in which colony she settled.
The 1767 census records that Katharina Merkel came from the German region of Hamburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Merkel family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 226.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai
Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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