Pierre Ricard, a cobbler (cordonnier), age 26, and his unnamed wife, a seamstress (couturière), age 17, are recorded on a list of French colonists dated September 1764.
Pierre Oucard [sic], a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his wife Anna Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen on 28 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 17.
The 1764 list of colonists records that Pierre Ricard came from the French region of Avignon and his wife came from the French region of Brandebourg. The 1767 census records that Pierre Oucard came from the French region of Papstprovinz Avignon.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas & Georg Rauschenbach. Die "Berufer": Abenteurer der Aufklärung in Katharinas II. Kolonisierungsprojekt (Moscow, 2019): 42.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 445.
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