Spelling Variations
Wilhelm (Dreispitz)*
Вильгельмъ (Dreispitz)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Christian Wilhelm, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Dreispitz on 16 September 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 15.
The 1767 census records that Christian Wilhelm came from the German village of Seifhennersdorf in Sachsen (Saxony).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Wilhelm family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 375.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai
Immigrated to the following locations
Pre-Volga Origin
50.933333, 14.616667
Volga Colonies
50.366667, 45.66
Immigration Locations
38.833333, -98.583333