Spelling Variations
Niederhof*
Нидергофъ*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Mathias Niederhof, a locksmith (Schlosser), and his unnamed wife settled in the Volga German colony of Kamenka on 10 October 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 57.
Mattias Niederhof, his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Ottilia (age 1) are recorded on the 1775 census of Kamenka in Household No. 84.
The 1767 census records that Mathias Niederhof came from the Austrian town of Wien (Vienna).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Niederhof family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- 1775 Kamenka Census (Household No. 84).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 229.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai