Sensdorf
Spelling Variations:
Sensdorf
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Johann Sensdorf, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Der Junge Mattias under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dehler on 1 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 20.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Sensdorf came from the German village of Eisenbach in the Trier region.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 271.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3427.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai