Sowalter*
Joseph Sowalter & Maria Anna Caßpar were married on 24 June 1765 in Roßlau.
Joseph Sowalter, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Rohleder on 14 June 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 25.
The 1767 census records that Joseph Sowalter came from the Pilsen region in Böhmen (Bohemia) [today Plzeň region, Czech Republic].
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): #870.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 53.
Brent Mai