Pikus
Spelling Variations:
Pikus
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Discussion & Documentation:
Georg Pikus, his wife Dorothea, and son Christian immigrated to Russia. Georg died, and his widow remarried to Christian Hendel and is recorded along with son Christian on the 1767 census of Grimm in Household No. 32.
Christian Pikus is recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 20.
The 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Pommern (Pomerania).
Sources:
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 20).
- 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): Gm057.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 77.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai