Johann Rausch, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Daniel Rausch, his [new] wife Elisabeth, and [step-]daughter Katharina (age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 29. They had settled there on 10 June 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Rausch came from the German region of Hanau. The 1767 census records that Daniel Rausch came from the German village of Paterburg [Petersburg?] in the Hanau region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Rausch 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): 250.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 198.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1792.
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