Spelling Variations
Thomä (Chasselois)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Johannes Thomä, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Chasselois on 2 August 1766.
They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 23. A note on the 1767 census records that his wife, Margaretha (surname not recorded), arrived in Russia as a widow.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Thomä came from the German village of Saarburg in the Trier region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Thomä family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 256.
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