Andreas Ruder, his wife Appolonia, and children (Margaretha, age 12; Christian, age 9¼; Paulus, age 5½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Andreas Ruder, his wife Appolonia, and children (Margaretha, age 12; Christian, age 9½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Andreas Ruder, a farmer, his wife Appolonia, and children (Anna Maria, age 10; Hans Georg, age 8) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 31 along with a note that they relocated to the Volga German colony of Wittmann in 1768.
The 1798 census of Wittmann (Household No. Wm46) records that Magdalena Ruder and her family are working in Biberstein.
The death of Andreas Ruder at the age of 71 is recorded on 18 June 1803 in the parish register of Wittmann.
The 1767 census records that Andreas Ruder came from the German village of Henhoffen [Hemhofen?].
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 837.
- 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): Wm31, Wm34, Wm46.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6735 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Parish register of Wittmann.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 201.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4660-4663.
Brent Mai