Rekowski (Kamenka-1)

Spelling Variations:

Рековски (Kamenka-1)

Rekovski (Kamenka-1)

Settled in the Following Colonies:

Kamenka

Pre-Volga Origin:

Copenhagen, Denmark

Discussion & Documentation:

Johann Rekowski, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his wife Maria Magdalena settled in the Volga German colony of Kamenka on 6 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 96.

The 1767 census records that Johann Rekowski came from the Danish town of Copenhagen.

Sources:

- 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): Km068.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 241.

Contributor(s) to this page:

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies