Wels*

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Spelling Variations:

Wels*

Вельсъ*

Settled in the Following Colonies:

Pre-Volga Origin:

Discussion & Documentation:

Peter Wels, a farmer, and his wife Anna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 49.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census records that Peter Wels came from the German village of Thalhausen.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Wels family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources:

- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 272.

Contributor(s) to this page:

Brent Mai