Riffling
Spelling Variations:
Riffling
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Martin Riffling, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 65.
In 1786, Martin Riffling and his family moved from Nieder-Monjou to Fischer.
The 1767 census records that Martin Riffling came from the German village of Riesa.
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): Fs10, Mv1897.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 364.
Researcher(s):
Brent Mai