Michael Bender [sic] (age 35), a farmer, his wife Anna Barbara (age 34), and sons (Johann Nikolaus, age 2; Johann Teobold, age 1-day) are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 13. They had arrived in the Volga German colony of Moor on 1 July 1766.
Michael Wunder (age 46), his wife Anna (age 45), and sons (Nikolaus, age 9; Johann, age 7; Adam, age 4) are recorded on the 1775 census of Moor in Household No. 8.
Michael Wunder is recorded on the 1798 census of Moor in Household No. Mo23 along with his son Nikolaus. His sons are recorded there in Households No. Mo03 (Johannes) & Mo56 (Adam).
Michael Wunder and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Moor in Household No. 22.
The death of Michael Wunder on 14 March 1815 (at the age of 84) is recorded in the parish register of Moor.
[a] Nikolaus Wunder and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Moor in Household No. 31.
The death of Nikolaus Wunder on 15 July 1840 is recorded in the parish register of Moor.
[b] Johannes Wunder and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Moor in Household No. 3 along with a note that Johannes had died in 1830.
[c] Adam Wunder and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Moor in Household No. 75.
The death of Adam Wunder on 19 June 1835 is recorded in the parish register of Moor.
Johann Nikolaus Wunder and his family moved to the daughter colony of Gnadenfeld.
In 1861, Georg Christian Wunder and his family moved from Moor to Dobrinka.
The 1767 census records that Michael Bender [sic] came from the German Kurpfalz area.
- 1775 Moor Census (Household No. 8).
- 1811 Moor Census (Household No. 22).
- 1834 Moor Census (Households No. 3, 31, 75, 129).
- 1850 Moor Census (Household No. 3).
- 1857 Moor Census (Household No. 137).
- 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): Mo03, Mo23, Mo56.
- Parish register of Moor.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 158.
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