Caspar Bolender immigrated to Russia from Schlitz, Germany with his wife Anna and daughter, also Anna, four years old. Also traveling with the family was his mother-in-law, Agness.
Note: He and his family did not appear in the 1775 census, so they resettled in Grimm from another Volga colony.
Sources
The 1775 and 1798 Census of the German Colony of the Volga Lesnoy Karamysh, also known as Grimm; Published by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA; Published date: 1995; family #146 in the 1798 census, Kasper [sic] Volender [Bolender?], age 62.
Pleve, Igor; Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766, "Reports by Ivan Kulberg;" Saratov State Technical University, Saratov, Russia; published in Saratov 2010; page 167, Caspar Bolender, Lutheran farmer from Schlitz, document number 2398, wife: Anna, daughter: Anna, 4, mother-in-law Agness.
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