Spelling Variations
Schepp*
Schett*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Georg Schepp / Schett, a butcher (Fleischer), settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 26 June 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 122 along with a note that his wife had died during the trip under the command of Oberleutenant Dunkel.
The 1767 census records that Georg Schepp / Schett came from the German village of Innsburg [Innsbruck?] in the Tirol region.
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 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 240.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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