Straff*

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Spelling Variations:

Straff*

Штрафъ*

Settled in the Following Colonies:

Pre-Volga Origin:

Discussion & Documentation:

Johann Straff, a single baker (Bäcker), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 67.

It is not known in which colony he settled.

The 1767 census records that Johann Straff came from the German village of Neuss.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Straff family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources:

- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 174.

Contributor(s) to this page:

Brent Mai