Nicolaus Rupp, son of Valentin Rupp, was baptized 19 February 1730 at the Catholic church in Hofheim. Nicolaus married there on 27 February 1764 to Maria Anna Hebeler, daughter of Johannes & Anna Dorothea Hebeler. The baptism of one child is recorded in the Hofheim parish register: Anna Margaretha, baptized 6 July 1765.
Nikolaus Rupp, his wife Anna, and daughter Anna (age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Neptunus (Neptune) under the command of Skipper Johann Graap.
Nicolaus Rupp, his wife Anna, and daughter Anna (age 2¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that wife Anna died en route.
Nikolaus Rupp and his [new] wife Anna Margaretha, widow of Johannes Herrmann, are recorded on the 1767 census of Rothammel in Household No. 23 along with his stepson Johannes Herrmann (age 16). They had settled in Rothammel on 21 August 1767.
Nikolaus Rupp and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Rothammel in Household No. Rt24.
The death of Nikolaus Rupp in 1808 is recorded on the 1811 census of Rothammel in Household No. 24.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Rupp came from the German region of Worms. The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Rupp came from the German village of Hofheim in the region of Worms.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Rupp family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Rothammel Census (Household No. 24).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 734.
- 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): Rt24.
- Parish register of Hofheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 85.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5868.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6439-6441.
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