Franz Sieb, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Anna Margaretha, age 3; Johann Jakob, age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 33. They had settled there on 18 July 1767.
Franz Sieb and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm22.
Johannes Sieb and his family relocated to the daughter colony of Marienfeld in 1852.
Margaretha Sieb, widow of Johannes Sieb, and her family are recorded on the 1857 census of Marienfeld.
The 1767 census records that Franz Sieb came from the German village of Heppenheim in the Kurmainz region.
[A translation of the 1798 census erroneously records this surname as Zipp and the 1834 census records it as Zinn.]
- 1857 Marienfeld Census.
- 1857 Volmer Census (Households No. 116, 132).
- 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): Vm22.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 291.
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