Grass (Basel)
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Grass (Basel)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Johannes Grass, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughter Anna (age 4) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 25 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Basel in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Grass came from the German village of Breitenbach.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 3 (Goettingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 357.
Researcher(s):
Brent Mai