Spelling Variations
Philbert
Filbert
Place of origin
Gronau, Bensheim, Hessen, Germany
Description
Johann Peter Pfilbert was born on 27 September 1708 in Gronau, northeast of Frankfurt am Main. He married in Gronau on 25 August 1733 to Anna Maria Stock (born 8 November 1716). They immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) where he died on 21 May 1761 in the colony of Thoring. His descendants immigrated to Schilling and by the time of the 1798 Census, some were living in Beideck.
Sources
Lang, Gerhard. German Colonists of Denmark on the Volga.
Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999).
Researchers
Gerhard Lang