Johannes Richter, a carpenter (Tischler), and his wife Johanna Bosch settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 45.
Johannes Richter (age 35) and his wife Antonia née Beusch (age 32) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 65 along with a note that Antonia née Beusch died in 1780.
In 1786, Johannes Richter and his family left Katharinenstadt.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Richter came from the German village of Wischef [?] near Mähren and that Johanna Bosch came from the Dutch town of Amsterdam in Holland. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Johannes Richter came from the German village of Bischoffs near Mähren.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Richter family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 65).
- 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): Mv1182.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 286.
Brent Mai