Neu-Jamburg, Jekaterinoslaw Village Information

Region: Jekaterinoslaw
Government
Founded: 1847 German Name: Neu-Jamburg
Area:   Religion: Catholic Russian Name:  
District: Kreis Alexandrowsk Location:   Ukrainian Name:  
Rayon: Mariupol        

Village Coordinator:  Volunteer Needed

Notes:
 In 1847, thirty-seven families (241 persons) from the three small Catholic villages near Jamburg (Kingisepp) on the Luga River about sixty-five miles southwest of St. Petersburg (Leningrad), formed the village of Neu-Jamburg.  The Catholic villages near St. Petersburg had been formed in about 1767.  No village report was ever made for Neu-Jamburg nor is it listed in the Stumpp book.

Church Records
None known at this time

Articles
VILLAGES IN WHICH OUR FOREFATHERS LIVED:  EARLY DAUGHTER COLONIES NEAR MARIUPOL,  by Adam Giesinger, AHSGR Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring 1979)

THE PLANER COLONIES, by A. Prinz (translation by J.L. Ritchie), Heritage Review, Vol 23: 1, 1993.

Regional Interest Group for this VillageCrimea/Taurien RIG


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