Schäfer (Katharinenstadt-3)*
Spelling Variations:
Schäfer (Katharinenstadt-3)*
Шеферъ (Katharinenstadt-3)*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Discussion & Documentation:
In 1785, widow Elisabeth Schäfer disappeared from Katharinenstadt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schäfer family among the Volga German colonies.
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): Mv1178.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai