Klehmann (Kaneau)
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Klehmann (Kaneau)
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Discussion & Documentation:
Gottfried Klehmann, a farmer, and his wife Maria are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 34 along with her son from a previous marriage [surname Retz] (Christoph, age 16). They had settled in Kaneau on 3 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Gottfried Klehmann came from the German region of Dessau.
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): Kn25.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 251.
Researcher(s):
Brent Mai