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Munsch

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Munch
Munsch
Муншъ
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation

Christian Monsch married on 2 September 1766 in St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Lübeck to Maria Elisabeth Knorr.

Christian Munsch, a miller (Müller), and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Schönchen on 17 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 5.

Christian Munsch and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schönchen in Household No. Sn26.

The 1767 census records that Christian Munsch came from the German village of Helferskirchen.

Sources

- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Sn26.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #123.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 106.

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Brent Mai