Spelling Variations
Sostdorf*
Zostdorf*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Johannes Sostdorf / Zostdorf, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 105 along with stepson Johannes Stein (age 12).
The 1767 census records that Johannes Sostdorf / Zostdorf came from the German village of Lengfeld.
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 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 443.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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