Spelling Variations
Renoir
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Franz Renoir, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Jager under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 15 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 79.
The 1767 census records that Franz Renoir came from the village of Remich in Luxembourg.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 2005): 426.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2166.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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