Spelling Variations
Wilteig*
Вильтейгъ*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
August Wilhelm Wilteig, a bum (Cyrillic = лентяй), settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 211a along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Basel in 1768.
The 1767 census records that August Wilhelm Wilteig came from the German region of Kornbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Wilteig family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 319.
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