1. Surnames
  2. Söpp (Did Not Arrive)*

Söpp (Did Not Arrive)*

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Spelling Variations: 
Söpp (Did Not Arrive)*
Зепъ (Did Not Arrive)*
Settled in the Following Colonies: 
Unknown Colony
Pre-Volga Origin: 
Herbstein, Kr. Vogelsberg, Hessen
Discussion & Documentation: 

Paul Söpp was born in Herbstein, between Giessen & Fulda, on 26 April 1743.

He immigrated to Russia, arriving from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the hooker Die Jungfer Dietrika under the command of skipper Christian Korsholm. He died during the transport from Oranienbaum to the Volga colonies.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources: 

- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga: 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): 122-123, 707-723, 728-729, 736.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): 363.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Inge Steul

Bill Pickelhaupt

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies