Glass (Schuck)*
Spelling Variations:
Glass (Schuck)*
Гласъ (Schuck)*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Jakob Glass, a soldier (Soldat), settled in the Volga German colony of Schuck on 1 May 1767. He and his wife Anna Katharina are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 32.
The 1767 census records that Jakob Glass came from the German village of Graudenz in Poland.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Glass family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 117.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai