Skip to main content

VGI Updates

Markus (Schulz)

Tobias Friedrich Markus, a soldier (Soldat), and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Schulz on 8 September 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 2.

The 1767 census records that Tobias Friedrich Markus came from the town of Stettin in the region of Prussian Pomerania.

Schulz (Schulz-2)

Johann Gottfried Schulz settled in the Volga German colony of Schulz on 8 September 1766. He and his wife Maria Elisabeth are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 8.

The 1767 census records that Johann Gottfried Schulz came from the German village of Insterburg in the region of Prussia.

Schulz (Schulz-1)

Johann Jakob Schulz, a craftsman (Handwerker), settled in the Volga German colony of Schulz on 8 September 1766. He and his wife Sophia Friederike are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 1.

The 1767 census records that Johann Jakob Schulz came from the German town of Lübeck.

Glass (Schuck)*

Jakob Glass, a soldier (Soldat), settled in the Volga German colony of Schuck on 1 May 1767. He and his wife Anna Katharina are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 32.

The 1767 census records that Jakob Glass came from the German village of Graudenz in Poland.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Glass family among the Volga German colonies.

Berkenstock (Enders)*

Peter Berkenstock, son of a pastor (Pastorensohn), settled in the Volga German colony of Enders on 27 July 1765. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 11 along with his wife Katharina Ignata Eva who was from Krakau, Poland.

The 1767 census records that Peter Berkenstock came from the Swedish city of Stockholm.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.

Birkenstock (Schuck)

Peter Berkenstock, a turner (Dreher), settled in the Volga German colony of Schuck on 18 July 1766. He and his family are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 30.

Widower Peter Birkenstock and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schuck in Household No. Su18.

The 1767 census records that Peter Berkenstock came from the German village of Ladenburg.

Matthias (Schuck)*

Johann Nicolaus Mathias (age 25), a tiler (Ziegler), recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. He is recorded on the Worms list as the future son-in-law (Zukünftiger Tochtermann) of Johann Peter Roth with whom he was traveling. Johann Peter Roth's daughter Catharina (age 17) was evidently Johann Nicolaus Mathias's intended wife. They had all arrived in Worms on 22 September 1765.

Jansen (Schuck)*

Konrad Jansen, a farmer, his wife Maria Margaretha, and sons (Nikolaus, age 18; Johannes, age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of the Volga German colony of Schuck in Household No. 28. They had settled there on 18 July 1766.

The 1798 census records that Johannes Jansen from Schuck is living in the colony of Franzosen (Fz23). Johannes Jansen's death in 1825 is recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Kolonie (Household No. 36).

The 1767 census records that Konrad Jansen came from the German region of Kurpfalz.