Jean [Johann] Rande was born in approximately 1786 in the French village of Reindeville [perhaps Déville-lès-Rouen] in France.
He served as a soldier in the 93rd Infantry Regiment of Napoleon's Army. He fought against the Russians and was captured.
Milovidov records that as of 1814 he still had a sister living in Reindeville.
In 1814, he was settled in the Volga German colony of Urbach.
He and two sons are recorded on the 1834 Urbach Census in Household No. 62.
They are recorded on the 1850 Urbach Census in Household No. 100 with his death noted there in 1849.
His descendants relocated to the daughter colony of Friedental in 1850, and when Friedental was abandoned in the 1860s, the family relocated to the daughter colony of Liebental.
Descendants of this family in the United States generally use the spelling of Randa for this surname.
- 1834 Urbach Census (Household No. 62).
- 1850 Friedental Census.
- 1850 Urbach Census (Household No. 100).
- 1874 Liebental Census.
- Belousov, S.V. "Prisoners of war of Napoleon's army in the Volga region: the arrangement, content, relationships with the local population." Bulletin of the Samara State University, No. 1 (Samara, Russia: Samara State University, 2006): 48-55.
- Milovidov, B. P. "Prisoners of War of the Napoleonic Army in the Saratov Colonies in 1813-1820: New Documents." (p. 50, #108)
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