Heck (Biberstein)
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Heck (Biberstein)
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Discussion & Documentation:
Just Heck, a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 50 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Biberstein in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Just Heck came from the German village of Kerebach [?].
Sources:
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Bb28.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Goettingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 206.
Researcher(s):
Brent Mai