Johannes Rudolph, son of Johann & Anna Barbara Rudolph, was born on 8 February 1720 and baptized on 9 February 1720 in the Evangelical (Lutheran) Church in Langstadt, located between Darmstadt and Hanau. He married Johanna (Anna) Christina Spiel on 11 Jan 1746 in Langstadt.
They had six children, each baptized in Langstadt: (1) Anna Margaretha, born on 10 November 1746; (2) Ottilia, born on 26 December 1748; (3) Andreas, born on 27 February 1751; (4) Johann Heinrich, born on 10 May 1752; (5) Anna Maria, born on 24 January 1755; and (6) Michael, born on 17 August 1761.
Johannes Rudolph, his wife Johanna, and children (Johann, age 15; Anna, age 11; Michael, age 5¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Die Jungfer Friederika under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.
The Rudolphs arrived in the Volga German colony of Straub on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 6. By the time of the Straub 1798 Census, his widow and descendants are recorded in Households No. Sr02 & Sr03.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 150.
- 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): Sr02, Sr03.
- Parish register of Langstadt (LDS Film No. 1340337).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Nordost-Institut, 2008): 230-231.
- Pleve, Igor. List of Colonists to Russia in 1766 "Reports by Ivan Kulberg" (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #930.
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Brent Mai