Repp

Associated Colonies
Place of origin
Hain-Gründau (Gründau), Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Hessen, Germany
Description

Jacob Repp and Elisabeth Hirchenhaÿn were married in Büdingen on 11 Apr 1766. Both were born in Hain-Gründau. Johann Jacob Repp, the son of Johann Heinrich Repp, was born on 10 Mar 1728.  Maria Elisabeth Hirchenhaÿn, the daughter of Conrad Hirchenhaÿn, was born on 2 Sep 1734. This couple is reported on the Huck First Settlers List, Family #10. Maria Elisabeth Eisenhuth is reported as on orphan in this household. Maria Elisabeth Eisenhuth’s mother was Anna Maria Repp, the sister of Johann Jacob Repp.

Sources

- Parish records of Hain-Gründau on Archion.de
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): p. 66
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010) p. 212
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): p. 142

Researchers
Maggie Hein
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