Valentin Rausch, a farmer, his wife Ottilia, and daughter Elisabeth (age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Semenovka on 24 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 37.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Valentin Rausch came from the German region of Fulda. The 1767 census records that Valentin Rausch came from the German village of Tede [?] in the Fulda region.
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Brent Mai