Gottlieb Susdorf, a Hussar - member of the light cavalry (Husar), his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Maria, age 5; Karl Friedrich, age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 36. They had settled there on 27 August 1766.
Gottlieb Susdorf's children (Elisabeth, age 13; Karl Friedrich, age 11) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 177 along with a note that they are living with Elias Happe.
In 1790, widow Maria Dorothea Susdorf moved from Katharinenstadt to Penza.
Karl Susdorf and his wife Eleonora Mertz from Urbach are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka132.
The 1767 census records that Gottlieb Susdorf came from the German village of Gotha in the Thüringen region. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that he came from the German village of Tuchland bei Kustrin.
- 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): Ka132, Mv1211.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 2284.
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