Spelling Variations
Siegfried (Merkel)*
Сигфридъ (Merkel)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Christoph Ulrich Siegfried, a single barber (Friseur), settled in the Volga German colony of Merkel on 28 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 20.
The 1767 census records that Christoph Ulrich Siegfried came from the German town of Stuttgart in the region of Württemberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Siegfried family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 121.
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