Scheffin (Mariental)
Spelling Variations:
Scheffin (Mariental)
Шефинъ (Mariental)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Discussion & Documentation:
Jakob Scheffin (age 15) and his sister Margaretha (age 8) settled in the Volga German colony of Mariental. Their widowed mother had remarried to Heinrich Ulrich Telf and they are all recorded on the 1767 census of Mariental in Household No. 20.
Some translations use Schäfer for this surname.
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): Mt67.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 100.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai