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Schwemmling (Louis)
Швемлингъ (Louis)
Schwemling
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Melchior Schwemmling, a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth [Dening], and son Thomas (age 1½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Louis in Household No. 19. They had settled there on 14 June 1766.
The death of Melchior Schwemling on 8 July 1818 is recorded in the parish register of Louis.
The 1767 census records that Melchior Schwemmling came from the German region of Zweibrücken.
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): Ls02.
- Parish register of Louis.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 84.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai