Vogt (Merkel)*
Spelling Variations:
Vogt (Merkel)*
Фогтъ (Merkel)*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Discussion & Documentation:
Christian Vogt, a single cobbler (Schuhmacher), settled in the Volga German colony of Merkel on 28 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 10.
The 1767 census records that Christian Vogt came from the German region of Hamburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Vogt family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 121.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai