Schunk (Kratzke)*
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Schunk (Kratzke)*
Шункъ (Kratzke)*
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Discussion & Documentation:
Johann Jakob Schunk (age 12), son of the deceased Johann Jakob Schunk, is recorded on the 1767 census of Kratzke in Household No. 36 along with his stepfather Johann Philipp Gross.
The 1767 census records that Johann Jakob Schunk came from the region of Alsace.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schunk family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 457.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai