Extracted by Tim Janzen
This site makes available a census taken on April 30, 1802 of the village of Neuenburg in the Chortitza Colony in South Russia. The census was compiled under the direction of Johan Martens who was mayor of the village at that time. The census lists the names and ages of 127 residents of Neuenburg as well as statistical data concerning their possessions. The original document was written in German and may be found on frames 181 to 191 of File #98 of the microfilm of selected files from Odessa Archives, Fund 6, Inventory 1.
This census appears to have been part of a series of censuses that were taken at the same time for all of the villages of the Chortitza Colony. However, the only other village for which we currently have data from this 1802 census is the village of Neuendorf. The census for the village of Neuendorf has been previously published on pages 254 to 256 in Benjamin H. Unruh’s book Die niederländisch-niederdeutschen Hintergründe der mennonitischen Ostwanderungen im 16., 18. und 19. Jahrhundert.
The data from this census is available for review as a table of the original census data and as a database in the form of a gedcom file in which the ages of the people mentioned in the census have been converted into approximate years of birth. In the both the table and the gedcom file I have spelled the names as they appear in the original document.
If you have any questions about any of this data feel free to contact me.
| House # | Name | Age of males |
Age of females |
Remarks | Horses | Cattle | Sheep | Pigs | Plows | Harrows | Wagons | Spinning Wheels |
Looms |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johan Hübert, carpenter, linen weaver & experienced in other similar manual skills | 56 | 6 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| wife Susana | 32 | ||||||||||||
| first son Phillip | 9 | ||||||||||||
| second son Johan | 7 | ||||||||||||
| third son Abraham | 3 | ||||||||||||
| first daughter Susana | 5 | ||||||||||||
| second daughter Cathirina | 9 weeks | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Isaac Lehn, weaver | 27 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| wife Cathirina | 30 | ||||||||||||
| son Cornelius Entz | 9 | ||||||||||||
| second son Jacob | 6 months | ||||||||||||
| first daughter Susana | 5 | ||||||||||||
| second daughter Cathirina | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Abraham Wiensz | 31 | 3 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||
| wife Helena | 23 | ||||||||||||
| first daughter Helena | 2 | ||||||||||||
| second daughter Elisabeth | 6 months | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Gerhard Kaler | 45 | 4 | 9 | 1 | ||||||||
| wife Anna | 34 | ||||||||||||
| daughter Anna | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Cathirina Reimers | 12 | relative | |||||||||||
| 5 | Bernhard Jantzen, tailor | 26 | 5 | 10 | 1 | ||||||||
| wife Cathirina | 31 | ||||||||||||
| daughter Maria | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Daniel Löwen | 50 | 4 | 13 | 01-Feb | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| wife Maria | 36 | ||||||||||||
| first son Daniel | 7 | ||||||||||||
| second son Frantz | 3 | ||||||||||||
| daughter Judit | 18 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | George Krahn | 28 | 7 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| wife Maria | 23 | ||||||||||||
| son Abraham | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Diedrich Klassen | 17 | relative | |||||||||||
| 8 | Jacob Neyfelt | 30 | 5 | 11 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| wife Cathirina | 51 | ||||||||||||
| daughter Cathirina | 10 | ||||||||||||
| 9 | Peter Döll, weaver | 41 | 9 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| wife Anna | 36 | ||||||||||||
| son Heinrich | 3 | ||||||||||||
| daughter Anna | 10 | ||||||||||||
| 10 | Abrahan Krahn, weaver | 36 | 12 | 50 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| wife Cathirina | 52 | ||||||||||||
| son Isaac Vriesen | 19 | ||||||||||||
| Gerhard Krahn | 22 | brother | |||||||||||
| Frantz Löwen | 19 | domestic servant | |||||||||||
| Maria Jantzen | 9 | relative | |||||||||||
| Maria Löwen | 19 | domestic maid | |||||||||||
| 11 | Johan Martens | 41 | 9 | 24 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| wife Magaretha | 41 | ||||||||||||
| first son Jacob | 16 | ||||||||||||
| second son Johan | 13 | ||||||||||||
| third son Gerhard | 4 | ||||||||||||
| first daughter Christina | 14 | ||||||||||||
| second daughter Magaretha | 11 | ||||||||||||
| third daughter Jartraud | 9 | ||||||||||||
| fourth daughter Maria | 6 months | ||||||||||||
| 12 | Frantz Barckman | 40 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| wife Maria | 40 | ||||||||||||
| first son Frantz | 17 | ||||||||||||
| second son Wilhelm | 10 | ||||||||||||
| third son Abraham | 3 weeks | ||||||||||||
| first daughter Maria | 8 | ||||||||||||
| second daughter Cathirina | 6 | ||||||||||||
| third daughter Anna | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 13 | Johan Dyck | 48 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| wife Maria | 45 | ||||||||||||
| first son Johan | 11 | ||||||||||||
| second son Abraham | 9 | ||||||||||||
| first daughter Maria | 7 | ||||||||||||
| second daughter Helena | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 14 | Abraham Dyck | 41 | 2 | 14 | 1 | ½ | 1 | ||||||
| wife Sara | 34 | ||||||||||||
| Phillip Dyck | 69 | He recently left | 1 | 9 | ½ | 1 | |||||||
| wife Helena | 40 | ||||||||||||
| 15 | Abraham Jantzen | 44 | 2 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||
| wife Magaretha | 25 | ||||||||||||
| first daughter Cathirina | 2 | ||||||||||||
| second daughter Magaretha | 6 months | ||||||||||||
| 16 | Peter Teichröws | 41 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| wife Helena | 38 | ||||||||||||
| first son Peter | 9 | ||||||||||||
| second son Phillip | 4 | ||||||||||||
| daughter Helena | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 17 | Gerhard Wiensz | 33 | 3 | 11 | 1 | ||||||||
| wife Aganetha | 41 | ||||||||||||
| son Jacob Warkentin | 17 | ||||||||||||
| second son Gerhard | 9 | ||||||||||||
| first daughter Aganetha | 7 | ||||||||||||
| second daughter Maria | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 18 | Peter Fröse | 48 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| wife Maria | 37 | ||||||||||||
| son Johan | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Aron Peters | 16 | relative | |||||||||||
| daughter Maria | 18 | ||||||||||||
| second daughter Helena | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 19 | Jacob Dörcksen | 30 | 4 | 16 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| wife Cathirina | 29 | ||||||||||||
| Heinrich Wieb | 10 | young domestic servant | |||||||||||
| first daughter Elisabeth | 9 | ||||||||||||
| second daughter Maria | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 20 | Jacob Lehn | 60 | 4 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| wife Susana | 64 | ||||||||||||
| Aron Lehn | 4 ½ | grandchild | |||||||||||
| Pauel Wieb | 23 | domestic servant | |||||||||||
| Aganetha Löwen | 23 | domestic maid | |||||||||||
| 21 | Heinrich Epp | 46 | 7 | 19 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| wife Susana | 21 | ||||||||||||
| first son Heinrich | 18 | ||||||||||||
| second son Cornelius | 6 | ||||||||||||
| third son Johan | 4 weeks | ||||||||||||
| first daughter Cathirina | 8 | ||||||||||||
| second daughter Magaretha | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 22 | Phillip Dyck | 22 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| wife Elisabeth | 31 | ||||||||||||
| first son Frantz Peters | 6 | ||||||||||||
| second son Jacob | 1 | ||||||||||||
| daughter Elisabeth | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 23 | Peter Reimer, carpenter | 29 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| wife Corlina | 23 | ||||||||||||
| daughter Anna | 2 | ||||||||||||
| second daughter Helena | 6 months | ||||||||||||
| Helena Fröse | 16 | domestic maid | |||||||||||
| Cornelius Drydiger | 25 | lodging at this home | |||||||||||
| wife Anna | 27 | ||||||||||||
| daughter Helena | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Isaac Klassen | 25 | ||||||||||||
| Johan Peters | 21 | ||||||||||||
| Totals | 59 | 68 | 123 | 352 | 11 | 23 | 11 | 13 | 25 | 18 | |||
| Recorded by Mayor Johan Martens on April 30, 1802 in Neuenburg | |||||||||||||
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