Hinfelder
Spelling Variations:
Hinfelder
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Discussion & Documentation:
Johann Hinfelder, a soldier (Soldat), and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Schäfer on 1 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 28.
The 1767 census records that Johann Hinfelder came from the German district of Regensburg.
Sources:
- 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): Sf16.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 96.
Researcher(s):
Brent Mai