Glass (Wittmann)*
Spelling Variations:
Glass (Wittmann)*
Гласъ (Wittmann)*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Discussion & Documentation:
In 1774, Nikolaus Glass fled the colony of Wittmann during the Pugachev Rebellion and is believed to have moved to Astrakhan.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Glass family among the Volga German colonies.
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): Mv3053.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai