Skip to main content

VGI Updates

Mosser

Johannes Mosser, a single teacher (Lehrer), is recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 82 along with a note that he is working as a day-laborer (Lohnarbeiter). He had settled there on 15 July 1767.

The death of Joseph Mosser in 1826 is recorded on the 1834 census of Köhler in Household No. 91. His relationship to Johannes Mosser on the 1767 census is undetermined at this time.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Mosser came from the German village of Vilseck [?].

Metzger (Leitsinger)*

Orphan Kaspar Metzger (age 9) is recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 49 along with the Kaspar Hiller family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Metzger and Hiller families.

The 1767 census does not record from where Kaspar Metzger came.

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

Merlein*

Michael Merlein, a farmer, and his wife Barbara are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 68. They had settled there on 5 September 1767.

The 1767 census records that Michael Merlein came from the German village of Reuth in the Bamberg region.

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

Keller (Leitsinger)

Jakob Keller, a carpenter (Zimmermann), his wife Maria, and children (Anna Maria, age 3; Jakob, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 29. They had settled there on 12 May 1767.

The 1767 census records that Jakob Keller came from the German village of Obernhausen in the Kurtrier region.

Hensel (Leitsinger)*

Michael Hensel, a miller (Müller), and his wife Walpurga are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 71. They had settled there on 12 May 1767.

The 1767 census records that Michael Hensel came from the German village of Gitting [?] in the Duchy of Pfalz-Neuburg.

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

Mauch*

Georg Mauch, a laborer (Tagelöhner), his wife Christina Rosina, children (Johann, age 5; Johann Mattias, age 3½, Christina Elisabeth, age 1), and his mother Barbara Hofer immigrated to Schleswig-Holstein (Denmark) arriving in Flensburg on 9 June 1762. They eventually settled in the Danish colony of Neuduvenstedt.

Keck

Peter Keck, a single farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Lauwe on 19 August 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 57.

Karl Keck, presumed to be the son of Peter Keck, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Lauwe in Household No. Lw33.

The descendants of Karl Keck are recorded on the 1834 census of Lauwe in Households No. 5 & 53.

Georg Keck (born about 1802) is recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Straub in Household No. 44 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Lauwe.