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Sucksdorf

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Sucksdorf
Suchsdorf
Суксдорфъ
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation

Johann Sucksdorf, a single tailor (Schneider), settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen on 26 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 51.

The 1834 census of Husaren (Household No. 20) records that Karl Suchsdorf relocated from Franzosen to Husaren in 1825.

The 1834 census of Louis (Household No. 50) records that Stephan Suchsdorf and his brothers Franz and Karl relocated from Franzosen to Louis in 1826.

The 1834 census of Louis (Household No. 50) records that Karl Suchsdorf relocated from Louis to Husaren in 1829.

The 1767 census records that Johann Sucksdorf came from the German town of Kiel in the Holstein region.

Sources

- 1834 Husaren Census (Household No. 20).
- 1834 Louis Census (Household No. 50).
- 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): Fz35.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 452.

Contributor(s) to this page

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

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Volga Colonies

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