Spelling Variations
Prosius*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Philipp Prosius, a farmer, his wife Magdalena, and son Christian (age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 100. They had settled there on 13 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Philipp Orosius came from the German village of Zinling [?] in the Kurpfalz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 236.
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