Walter (Walter-2)*
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Walter (Walter-2)*
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Discussion & Documentation:
Johann Georg Walter, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Julianna, and children (Peter, age 16; Georg, age 12; Anna, age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Walter in Household No. 72. They had settled there on 25 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that they came from the German village of Ische in the region of Hessen-Darmstadt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Walter family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 311.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai