Spelling Variations
Spahr (Warenburg)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Johann [Balzer] Spahr, a farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 46 along with his new wife Anna Katharina.
The 1767 census records that Balzer Spahr came from the German village of Altenhausen in the Darmstadt region.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 328.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1168.
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