Metzger (Leitsinger)*
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Metzger (Leitsinger)*
Мецгеръ (Leitsinger)*
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Discussion & Documentation:
Orphan Kaspar Metzger (age 9) is recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 49 along with the Kaspar Hiller family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Metzger and Hiller families.
The 1767 census does not record from where Kaspar Metzger came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Metzger family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 71.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai