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Weinkauf
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Peter Weinkauf, a farmer, and his wife Marianna are recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 27. They had arrived in Volmer on 18 July 1766.

In 1792, Peter Weinkauf and his family moved from Volmer to Seelmann.

The widow and children of Peter Weinkauf are recorded on the 1798 census of Husaren in Household No. Hn25.

Michael Weinkauf (born about 1786) and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Volmer in Household No. 32.

Heinrich Weinkauf (born about 1778) and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Hölzel in Household No. 38.

There are no known surviving male lines of the Weinkauf line that lived in Hölzel.

The 1767 census of Volmer records that Peter Weinkauf came from the German village of Starkenburg in the Kurmainz region.

Sources

- 1834 Volmer Census (Household No. 32).
- 1850 Hölzel Census (Household No. 69).
- 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): Hn25, Nk44, Mv2937.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6830.

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