The Guardianship Committee of Foreign Settlers in South Russia
Compiled November 2002 by Tim Janzen & Tatyana
Makarenko
Odessa Archives
Fund (Fond) 6, Inventory 1: 1831
File 2627. File concerning a report from the Ekaterinoslav
Guardianship Office about the payment for the use of lands belonging
to the sheepfold as communal property of the colonists (Molotschna Colonist
District).
- A report from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office to the New
Russia Guardianship Committee about the necessity to impose taxes
upon the colonists from Gruental* (and neighbour colonies) for the
use lands belonging to the sheepfold as communal property of the colonists
(Molotschna Colonist District).
- Information about the permission to use partially sheepfold lands
as pastures for colonies from another districts (Mariupol and Berdjansk).
* The Gruental Colony had been settled near the sheepfold as communal
property of the colonists in the Molotschna Colonist District for the
purpose to help and keep flocks, especially during winter. Gruental
consisted of 10 farms. Each of owners had 60 dessiatines of lands and
used lands belonging to the sheepfold as communal property of the colonists.
These documents are written in Russian.
6 November 1831. 4 pages.
File 2631. File concerning a report from the Ekaterinoslav
Guardianship Office that contain information about getting things put
in order in some colonies of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement.
- A report from the Ekaterinoslav Guardianship Office to the New
Russia Guardianship Committee about getting things put in order in
some colonies of the Ekaterinoslav Settlement (Chortitza and Molotschna
Colonies): punishment of negligent owners, completion of construction,
repairs, and so on.
These documents are written in Russian.
30 November 1831. 15 pages.
File 2635. File concerning the duty money that was collected
from the Mennonites and colonists for the issuance of temporary passports
for trips on personal business and what was sent in to the Exchequer.
- Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee, and
the Ekaterinoslav and Odessa Guardianship Offices concerning the duty
money that was sent in to the Exchequer, and what was collected from
Mennonites and colonists for the issuance of temporary passports for
trips on personal business.
- Names of colonists and Mennonites who had paid the duty money:
Michael Schmoda (Landau); Phillip Entsel, Michael Scherer (Mannheim);
Anton Kopp (Rastadt); Emanuel Wax (Lustdorf); Peter Zanbreher (Rastadt);
Sebastian Benkman (Heidelberg); Margaretha and her husband Heinrich
Penner (Schoenhorst); Johann Kobits (München); Ludwig Heckle
(Neusatz, Crimea); Ludwig Meier (Hoffnungstal, Odessa Settlement);
Christian Rudolf (Bergdorf); Johann George Mesner (Bergdorf); the
Mennonite Franz Loewen, Gottlieb Reihkemmer (Gross Liebental); Abraham
Avrutin (Izluchistaya).
These documents are written in Russian.
31 Dec 1830 to 30 Nov 1831. 33 pages.
File 2637. File concerning the issuance of temporary passports
to colonists from the Bessarabia, Odessa and Ekaterinoslav Settlements
who had obtained permission to leave the colonies for business and private
affairs during 1831.
- Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee and the
Ekaterinoslav, Bessarabia, and Odessa Guardianship Offices concerning
the issuance of temporary passports to colonists who had obtained
permission to leave the colonies for business and private affairs
during 1831.
- Names of colonists and Mennonites who had obtained passports are
the following: the Mennonite David Schroeder (Kronsgarten); Anna Betner
(1st Ferschampenuaz); Sebastian Binkmann (Heidelberg); Johann Schulze
(Tarutino); Christian Heiser (Bergdorf); Michael Moshinsky and his
wife Anna Maria (1st Ferschampenuaz); Franz Almas and his wife Katherina,
son Alexander (Krasna).
- Monthly lists of names of the colonists who had obtained permission
to leave the colonies for business and private affairs from the Ekaterinoslav,
Bessarabia, and Odessa Offices.
These documents are written in Russian.
31 Dec 1830 to 7 Jan 1832. 67 pages.
File 2639. File concerning the colonists and Mennonites who
returned to their colonies after a trip abroad.
- Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee and the
Ekaterinoslav, Bessarabia, and Odessa Offices concerning the colonists
and Mennonites who returned to their colonies after a trip abroad.
- Names of colonists who returned to their colonies are the following:
Andreas Bette (Johannestal); Teobold Bruker (Karlsruhe, Odessa Settlement);
Johann Folk (Friedenthal); Josef Bole (Elsass); George Heilman (Elsass);
Ottilia Gemerling (Mannheim); Andreas Schtrauh and his son Martin
(Neuhoffnungstal); Frederick Wurzinger (Glueckstal).
- Names of the Mennonites who returned to their colonies are the
following: Jacob Schellenberg, Klaas Heide (Tiegenhagen); Peter Rahn
(Sparrau); Jacob de Jager (Fuerstenwerder); Jacob and Michael Buller
(Karlsruhe, Molotschna Colonist District); August Gukenberg (Neuhoffnungstal);
Wilhelm Wagner (Worms).
- Lists of registration forms of passports.
These documents are written in Russian.
7 Jan 1831 to 13 Nov 1831. 19 pages.
File 2640. File concerning incidents, events, and accidents
that were happened in all the colonies for 1831.
- Correspondence from the New Russia Guardianship Committee, the
Ekaterinoslav, Odessa, and Bessarabia Guardianship Offices, the Department
of State Economy, and the Guardian of the Zadunaisky Settlers, Ministry
of the Internal Affairs concerning the deceased colonists, fires,
floods, theft, destruction, murders, and the others accidents that
were happened in all the colonies for 1831.
These documents are written in both Russian and German.
24 Dec 1830 to 19 Dec 1831. 228 pages.
File 2652. Statistical information about financial, industrial,
and economic activity of the colonists from the Ekaterinoslav and Bessarabia
Settlements for 1831.
- Monthly lists containing information about financial, industrial,
and economic activity of colonists from the Ekaterinoslav and Bessarabia
Settlements for 1831.
These documents are written in Russian.
9 Feb 1831 to 15 Jan 1832. 139 pages.
File 2674. File concerning the money that had been loaned to
the colonists from the Odessa and Ekaterinoslav Settlements.
- Monthly lists of the funds that had been loaned to the colonists
from the Odessa and Ekaterinoslav Settlements (the money was borrowed
from public incomes from the sale of wine, sheep breeding, and so
on).
These documents are written in Russian.
This file has been damaged by mold.
28 Feb 1831 to 21 Mar 1832. 333 pages.
File 2677. File concerning the orphans' money belonging to
the colonists from the Ekaterinoslav Settlement.
- Semi-annual lists of the amounts of the orphans' money for 1831.
These documents are written in Russian.
30 Jul 1831 to 5 Feb 1832. 4 pages.
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