Schaper*
Spelling Variations:
Schaper*
Шаперъ*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Peter Schaper, a single mason (Maurer), settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 5 March 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 218 along with a note that he was working as a day-laborer (Lohnarbeiter).
The 1767 census records that Peter Schaper came from the town of Amsterdam in Holland.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 320.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai