Trun
Spelling Variations:
Trun
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Nikolaus Trun, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Leitsinger on 12 May 1767 where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 14.
The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Trun came from the German village of Wilsberg in the Lothringen region.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 66.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #627
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai