Spelling Variations
Rannefeld*
Ранефельдъ*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Christian Rannefeld, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 178 along with a note that his wife died during the trip from Oranienbaum to Saratov and that he is working as a day-laborer (Lohnarbeiter).
The 1767 census records that Christian Rannefeld came from the German village of Aken in the Anhalt-Köthen region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Rannefeld family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 348.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai