Spelling Variations
Nagel (Schäfer)*
Нагель (Schäfer)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Franz Nagel, a soldier (Soldat), and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Schäfer on 1 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 43.
The 1767 census records that Franz Nagel came from the German village of Frankenstein in the Schlesien region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schäfer family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 100.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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