Spelling Variations
Winker
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Johann Winker, a Catholic chaplain (Geistlicher), and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Louis on 14 June 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 44.
In 1771, Lorenz Winker and his family left Louis.
The 1767 census records that Johann Winker came from Wien (Vienna), Austria.
Sources
- 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): Mv1557.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 90.
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Brent Mai
Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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