Peter Spikermann (age 47), a farmer, his wife Anna (age 30), and daughters by his first wife (Elisabeth, age 17; Maria Katharina, age 14; Angela, age 12; Anna Katharina, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Mariental in Household No. 76. They had arrived in Mariental on 15 July 1766.
In 1786, widower Peter Spikermann moved from Mariental to Franzosen.
The 1798 census of Kamenka records Peter Spikermann from Mariental in Household No. Km087.
Agnesa Zeiger née Spikermann (age 49) and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Franzosen in Household No. Fz02.
The 1767 census records that Peter Spikermann came from the German region of Geseke and that his wife Anna came from the village of Schersch in France.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Fz02, Km087, Mv1631.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 114.
Brent Mai