Sahlfeld (Warenburg)
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Sahlfeld (Warenburg)
Saalfeld (Warenburg)
Саальфельдъ (Warenburg)
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Discussion & Documentation:
Ludwig Sahlfeld, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 28.
The 1767 census records that Ludwig Sahlfeld came from the German village of Wiesen in the Darmstadt region.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 325.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1163.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai