Zitterkopf

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Zitterkopf
Циттеркопфъ
Zitterkoph
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The birth of Johann Konrad Zitterkopf is recorded in the parish records of neighboring Breitenborn on 2 October 1714. His marriage is also recorded there on 19 April 1740.

According to reports made by recruiter Johann Facius, one of those recruited to immigrate to Russia was Konrad Zitterkopf, age 42, of the Reformed faith, from the village of Gettenbach.

Konrad Zitterkopf, a baker (Bäcker), his wife Katharina Charlotte, and children (Adam, age 20; Johann Peter, age 18; Johannes, age 8; Anna Eleonora, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Huck in Household No. 58. They had arrived in Huck on 1 July 1767.

Konrad Zitterkopf, his wife Katharina Charlotte, and children (Johann Adam, age 23; Johann Peter, age 21; Johannes, age 15; Eleonora, age 13½) are recorded on the 1775 census of Huck in Household No. 22.

Konrad Zitterkopf and his wife Charlotte are recorded on the 1798 census of Huck in Household No. 23.

The death of Konrad Zitterkopf in 1799 is recorded on the 1811 census of Huck in Household No. 22.

(1) Adam Zitterkopf and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Huck in Household No. Hk23.

Adam Zitterkopf and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Huck in Household No. 27.

(2) Peter Zitterkopf and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Huck in Household No. 23.

Peter Zitterkopf and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Huck in Household No. 22.

(3) Johannes Zitterkopf and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Huck in Household No. Hk21.

The death of Johannes Zitterkopf in 1802 is recorded on the 1811 census of Huck in Household No. 21.

(4) Eleonora Zitterkopf is recorded on the 1798 census of Urbach in Household No. Ur30 along with her husband Michael Mertz and family.

The 1767 census records that Konrad Zitterkopf came from the German region of Isenburg.

Sources: 

- 1775 Huck Census (Household No. 22).
- 1811 Huck Census (Household No. 21, 22, 27).
- List of those recruited by Johann Facius from 13 November 1765 to 18 February 1766.
- 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): Hk21, Hk23, Hk27, Ur30.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 154.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Dennis Zitterkopf

Brent Mai

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