Heinrich Rouge [Rau], a farmer, his wife Katharina, son Nikolaus (age 4), and mother-in-law Anna [surname not recorded] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the 2-masted merchant ship named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.
Heinrich Rau, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and son Nikolaus (age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 21. They had settled there on 12 May 1767.
Following the destruction of Keller, this family relocated to the colony of Neu-Kolonie and Nikolaus's descendants (all daughters) are recorded there on the 1798 census in Household No. Nk04.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich [Rau] came from the German region of Bassenheim. The 1767 census records that Heinrich Rau came from the German village of Kottenheim near Bassenheim.
There do not appear to be any surviving male lines of this Rau family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 144.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Nk04.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 345.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #874.
Brent Mai