Sommer (Katharinenstadt)
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Sommer (Katharinenstadt)
Соммеръ (Katharinenstadt)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Carl Sommer & Johanna Dorothea Pauli were married 2 September 1766 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Karl Sommer, a physician (Arzt), and his wife Anna Paulÿ are recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 83 along Gottfried Paulÿ (age 17), Anna's brother and a note that they all relocated to the colony of Katharinenstadt in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Karl Sommer came from the Austrian town of Vienna.
Sources:
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #124.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 308.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai