Schwerin*
Spelling Variations:
Schwerin*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Heinrich Schwerin, a single chimney sweep (Schornsteinfeger), settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 193.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Schwerin came from the German town of Darmstadt in the Hessen 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 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 315
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai