Seng
Spelling Variations:
Seng
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Widower Johann Georg Seng, a farmer, and his daughters (Elisabeth, age 12; Anna, age 10) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 124.
The children of Georg Seng of Nieder-Monjou are recorded on the 1798 census of Rosenheim in Household No. Rm13 along with a note that Jost Seng is working in Basel.
The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Seng came from the German village of Burg Gemünden.
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): Rm13.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 124.
Researcher(s):
Brent Mai