Schellhorn (Schilling)*
Spelling Variations:
Schellhorn (Schilling)*
Шельгорнъ (Schilling)*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Single Peter Schellhorn (age 50) is recorded on an appendix to the 1775 census of the Volga German colony of Schilling in Household No. 11.
Notes accompanying the 1775 census record that Schellhorn came from the town of Gdansk. He lives in an adobe house and makes cheese from the milk of his two cows.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schellhorn family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- 1775 Schilling Census Appendix (No. 11).
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai