Schäfer (Dönhof)
Wilhelm Daniel Schäfer & Anna Margaretha Mößner had four sons: (1) Friedrich Wilhelm, born 11 December 1751 in Esslingen; (2) Philipp Heinrich August Friedrich, born 2 February 1753 in Ludwigsburg; (3) Anton Wilhelm Carl, born 5 May 1754 in Ludwigsburg, died in infancy; and (4) Christoph Wolfgang, born 8 April 1756 in Ludwigsburg, died in infancy. Father Wilhelm Daniel Schäfer, an engineer for the Duke of Württemburg, died on 13 April 1756 in Ludwigsburg.
Wilhelm Friedrich Schäfer (age 16) and his brother Philipp Heinrich Schäfer (age 15) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 38 along with their mother and stepfather Stephan Fink. They had settled in Dönhof on 21 July 1766.
Heinrich Schäfer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dönhof in Household No. Dh036.
In 1788, Friedrich Schäfer and his family moved from Dönhof to Jost [not Kutter].
Friedrich Schäfer from Dönhof and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Jost in Household No. Jo01.
- 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): Dh036, Jo01, Mv0477.
- Parish register of Esslingen.
- Parish register of Ludwigsburg.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 351.
Brent Mai
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