Schwindt (Kamenka)
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Schwindt (Kamenka)
Швиндъ (Kamenka)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Franz Adam Schwindt, a laborer (Fabrikarbeiter), and his wife Anna Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Kamenka on 6 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 11.
The 1767 census records that Franz Adam Schwindt came from the town of Copenhagen in Denmark.
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): Km010.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 218.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai
Immigrated to the following locations: