Zink

Spelling Variations: 
Zink
Цинкъ
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Johann Georg Krieger, a farmer, his wife Eva, [step-]sons (Johann Jakob [Zink], age 18; Joseph [Zink], age 12), and son Johann Peter (age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schuck in Household No. 5. They had arrived in Schuck on 18 June 1766.

Jakob Zink and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schuck in Household No. Su24.

Michael Zink is recorded on the 1811 census of Dehler in Household No. 23 along with a note that he had arrived in Dehler from Schuck in 1811.

Peter Zink from Schuck and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Marienfeld.

Sources: 

- 1811 Dehler Census (Household No. 23).
- 1857 Marienfeld Census.
- 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): Su24.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 112.

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