Wittmann (Schwed)
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Wittmann (Schwed)
Витманъ (Schwed)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Widower Ignatius Wittmann, a craftsman (Handwerker), settled in the Volga German colony of Schwed on 1 July 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 16.
The 1767 census records that Ignatius Wittmann came from the German town of Berlin in Brandenburg.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 144.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai