Spelling Variations
Schäfer (Unknown-2)*
Шеферъ (Unknown-2)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Philipp Wilhelm Schäfer, a soldier (Soldat), and his wife Marianna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 1.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The 1767 census records that Philipp Wilhelm Schäfer came from the German town of Stuttgart.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schäfer family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 323.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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