Sitzinger*

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Sitzinger*
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Heinrich Sitzinger, a blacksmith (Schmied), and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof on 12 February 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 53.

The 1767 census reocrds that Heinrich Sitzinger came from the German region of Hannover.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources: 

- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 355.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Volga Colonies