Philipp Pourquenoit, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Louis on 14 June 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 16.
Jakob Burgeno and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Louis in Household No. Ls43.
The death of Johannes Burgeno, son of Jakob Burgeno, in 1817 is recorded on the 1834 census of Louis in Household No. 13.
The 1767 census records that Philipp Pourquenoit came from the German village of Bitsch in the region of Lothringen.
Pourquenoit is a French surname that was Germanized to Burgno over time among the descendants who settled in the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Louis Census (Household No. 13).
- 1850 Louis Census (Household No. 13).
- 1857 Louis Census (Household No. 14).
- 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): Ls43.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 83.
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