Weimer (Dobrinka)
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Weimer (Dobrinka)
Веймеръ (Dobrinka)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Konrad Weimer, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Dobrinka on 15 April 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 45.
Konrad's widow is recorded on the 1798 census of Dobrinka in Household No. Db62.
The 1767 census records that Konrad Weimer came from the German village of Riede in the Hessen region.
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): Db29; Db62.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 325.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai
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