Kaneau

Alternate Names
Andreevka,
Andreyevka,
Caneau,
Kaneau,
Kano,
Kanskoje,
Kanskoye
Type of Settlement
History

Kaneau was founded as a Lutheran colony on 7 June 1767 by Baron Caneau de Beauregard.

Population
Population Table
Year
Households
Population
Total
Male
Female
1767
87
283
140
143
1769
87
310
158
152
1773
66
263
133
130
1788
31
163
97
66
1798
37
229
115
114
1816
45
383
187
196
1834
78
662
340
322
1850
108
826
404
422
1857
102
976
480
496
1859
90
986
493
493
1886
 
 
 
 
1891
 
 
 
 
1894
 
 
 
 
1897
 
1,703*
867
836
1904
 
 
 
 
1910
235
2,196
1,130
1,066
1912
 
2,494
 
 
1920
284
2,132
 
 
1926**
213
1,060
507
553

*Of whom 1,692 were German.
**Of whom 1,057 (507 male & 550 female) were German living in 212 households.

Sources

Beratz, Gottieb. The German colonies on the Lower Volga, their origin and early development: a memorial for the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first German settlers on the Volga, 29 June 1764 . Translated by Adam Giesinger (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1991): 348.

Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.

Dietz, Jacob E. History of the Volga German Colonists . Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2005.

Klaus, A.A. Our Colonies (Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1869): 2:13; 4:53-54.

List of the Populated Places of the Samara Province (Samara, Russia, 1910): 261.

Orlov, Gregorii. Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II , 14 February 1769.

Pallas, P.S. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Theil 3,2, Reise aus Sibirien zurueck an die Wolga im 1773sten Jahr (St. Petersburg: Kaiserl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 1776): 614.

Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 for the Volga German ASSR (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): 28-83.

"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.

Stumpp, Karl. Die Auswanderung aus Deutschland nach Rußland in den Jahren 1763 bis 1862 (Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 2004): 71.

Surnames with Confirmed Pre-Volga Origins