Ludwig Rudolph, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a barque named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dehler on 1 July 1767. Anna died on 12 October 1767 and Ludwig Rudolph is recorded on the 1767 census of Dehler in Household No. 43.
In 1788, Ludwig Rudolf and his family moved from Dehler to Brabander.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Ludwig Rudolph came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Ludwig Rudolph came from the German village of Kreuzberg near Bassenheim in the region of Kurmainz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Rudolph family among the Volga German colonies.
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Brent Mai