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Scheck (Herzog)

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Scheck (Herzog)
Sheck
Шекъ (Herzog)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation

Peter Scheck (age 52), a soldier (Soldat), his wife Anna Maria (age 29), and son Kaspar (age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Herzog in Household No. 29. They had arrived in Herzog on 14 July 1766 .

Kaspar Scheck and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Herzog in Household No. Hr07.

The death of Kaspar Scheck in 1832 is recorded on the 1834 census of Herzog in Household No. 44.

The 1767 census records that Peter Scheck came from the German region of Regensburg.

Sources

- 1834 Herzog Census (Households No. 32, 44).
- 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): Hr07.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 95.

Contributor(s) to this page

Brent Mai