Schwertz (Katharinenstadt)
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Schwertz (Katharinenstadt)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Peter Schwertz, a farmer, and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 47.
In 1790, Peter Schwertz and his wife left Katharinenstadt.
The 1767 census records that Peter Schwertz came from the German village of Mitau in the Kurland region and that his wife Anna came from the German village of Mittelmark near Berlin.
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): Mv1213.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 286.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai