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Schütz (Katharinenstadt-2)

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Schütz (Katharinenstadt-2)
Шицъ (Katharinenstadt-2)
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Discussion & Documentation

Heinrich Schütz (age 12), a single day-laborer, settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 222.

Heinrich Schütz (age 24), a single man, is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 195 along with a note that he is a servant (Dient) in the Feidel household.

Both the 1767 census and the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register record that Heinrich Schütz came from the German Principality of Ratzenburg in the Duchy of Mecklenburg.

Sources

- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 195).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 321.

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Volga Colonies