Associated Colonies
Place of origin
Schriesheim, Kreis Rhein-Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Description
Wendel Schwan was born in Schriesheim on 8 August 1739. He married in Fredericia on 14 April 1760 to Anna Barbara Zahn. She was born in 1740. They immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) and settled in Havredal colony.
They arrived in Messer on 7 July 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 23.
Sources
- Lang, Gerhard. German Colonists of Denmark on the Volga .
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 136.
Researchers
Gerhard Lang
Brent Mai
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