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Schäfer (Kamenka-2)

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Schäfer (Kamenka-2)
Шеферъ (Kamenka-2)
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Friedrich Schäfer, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Magdalena (age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kamenka in Household No. 48. They had arrived in Kamenka on 1 March 1767.

Friedrich Schäfer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Magdalena, age 16; Peter, age 8; Joseph, age 5) are recorded on the 1775 census of Kamenka in Household No. 41.

Friedrich Schäfer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kamenka in Household No. Km048.

The 1767 census records that Friedrich Schäfer came from the German village of Oberramstadt.

Sources

- 1775 Kamenka Census (Household No. 41).
- 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): Km048.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 227.

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