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- Information obtained from the original settlers listing that was located by RAGAS (Russian American Genealogical Archival Service) and translated into English in July 1998 by AHSGR. Gottlieb (Bogdan in Russian) was listed as a bachelor, Age 26, Lutheran, and occupation was a Gardener in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, Germany. The listing was prepared for Catherine II, Empress of Russia in 1767. RAGAS also located the 1768 Russian census of the village of Merkel, and was translated by AHSGR in December 1999. It listed Gottlieb as still a bachelor with 3 horses and 1/2 desyatina of plowed land, 6 chetverik of seeded rye. He was given 150 rubles from the Provincial Chancery at Saratov to build and furnish his home, and purchase farming equipment.
The 1798 translated census for the village of Merkel, Saratov Province (originaly Samara Province), Russia was obtained from AHSGR (American Historical Society of Germans from Russia). It displays the family as follows: Family Group 8; Gottlieb Margheim, age 57. Wife: Karolina Rudolph (2nd wife), age 28, from Ust-Solicha (Messer). Daughter: Anna Maria, age 2. Gottlieb's children from deceased wife: Sons, Johann Jakob, age 29; Johann Mathias, age 22; Georg Wilhelm, age 19; Georg Melchior, age 12; Johann Georg, age 9. Daughters: Katharina Magdalena, age 24; Eva Sibilla, age 15. The census also contained an inventory of farm animals, crops planted and crops harvested that year. (Census included in the Merkel Section of the Margheim Family History Book).
Census reports from Russia and the USA are used throughout this genealogy report.
Information also obtained from the Lee D. Foos book "Foos, born in Russia", the "World Family Tree" by Broderbund Corporation, and the Darrell W. Kautz books "In the Shadow of the Bell Tower", and "Beyond the Gates". Lee D. Foos, Wichita, Kansas, has done extensive research on the Margheim Family (because of the inter-marriages with the Foos families from Dietel, Friedenfeld, and Merkel, Russia). He shared that information with me (Clarence Jake Margheim) before he died in 1998. Darrell W. Kautz is the "Village Coordinator, Merkel, Russia" for AHSGR. The Kautz and Margheim families were very close, both in Russia and the USA.
Information also obtained from George Edward Margheim, Olympia, Washington, and his "Margheim Family Book". George died in 1998, and Frederick "Fritz" Margheim, Estes Park, Colorado provided the supporting information to the book. Information in his files indicate that the Margheim Family came from: "Aus Pobenhausen-Hanauscher Jurisdiction-Grosen Hessen Darmstadt". I am trying to verify this information through the Mormon Family History Center Archives.
Information was also obtained from Prof. Brent Alan Mai, Vanderbilt University and his Internet Website titled "Descendants of Families from Prussia (Germany) and Russia".
Written and verbal information also obtained from family members in Argentina, Germany, Russia, and the USA.
The Russian American Genealogical Archival Service (RAGAS) was hired in May 1997 to review church records, census reports, tax records, and etc. in Russia to verify the accuracy of this report, and identify unknown family members. The company got caught up in the political problems that presently "fester" in Russia, and has not been able to deliver as promised. In March 2000 a certified genealogist was retained. His name is Dr. Igor Pleve, Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia. He has performed extensive research on the Germans that lived in the Volga area for the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR). He has also prepared a number of geneaology charts for families from Merkel, Dietel, and other Volga villages. Dr. Pleve completed his "Margheim Family Geneaology Chart" for the village of Merkel November 14, 2000. It has been used to complete the Russian portion of this report. A copy of the chart is located in the "Documentation" section of this book. Dr. Pleve has indicated that there are no church records available for Merkel beyond 1863. They were evidently lost either during the Communist Revolution, or during World War II. Dr. Pleve was given the assignment of researching the Foos family in Merkel, Russia in December 2000, because of the many intermarriages that have taken place between the Margheim and the Foos families. The report was completed August 2002. Dr. Pleve combined the Merkel, and Dietel Foos families into one chart, and it's contents affecting the Margheim family are included in this report. Dr. Pleve was also given the assignment of researching the Brunz (Bruns, Bruntz) family of Merkel, Russia in December 2002. The report was completed in October 2004. Merkel, Russia church records (German) for the Margheim, Foos, and Brunz (Bruns, Bruntz) charts, were translated by Dr. Dona Reeves-Marquardt (a Foos cousin), Texas State University (formerly Southwest Texas State University) and the Russian census records for 1768, 1798, 1834 and 1857 by AHSGR Lincoln, Nebraska.
NOTES ON THE MEANING AND SPELLING OF THE FAMILY NAME "MARGHEIM": Rev. Eugene Beye, 5041 Grassridge Road, Lincoln, Nebraska, informs us that "Margheim" means "a well marked home". Johannes Margheim, Schiller Str 4, 74736 Hardheim, Odenwald, Germany, who was born in Merkel, Saratov Province, Russia in 1931, at the Margheim Family Reunion, August 8, 1999 Lyman, Scottsbluff County, Nebraska, informed the group that "Margheim" was the correct German spelling for our family name. Family members had the name incorrectly spelled by customs agents, court house clerks, etc., when they immigrated, and applied for citizenship. The most common mispellings were: Marcheim, Marchheim, Marchin, Margheun, Markheim, Markum, Merghiem, Morghaim, Morgheim, and Morghein.
Dr. Igor Pleve included pages from the Merkel Church Book with his reports that have confirmed the spelling of the family name. Those pages indicate "Margheim" is, and has been, the correct spelling of the family name.
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1741 - Abt 1808 (67 years)
