Friedrich Rergard [sic], a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Schuck on 18 July 1766. He and his wife Maria Eva are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 25. Subsequent documents record this family's surname as Dukart.
In 1788, widow Katharina Margaretha Dukart married Christoph Weis and moved from Schuck to Seelmann.
Katharina Dukart Weis from Franzosen is recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Household No. Sm3.
In 1792, Anna Elisabeth Dukart, daughter of Friedrich Dukart, married Franz Seib and moved to Sewald.
Elisabeth Seib née Dukart (age 26) and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Sewald in Household No. Sd12.
Heinrich Dukart (age 28), presumed son of Friedrich Dukart, from Schuck and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Franzosen in Household No. Fz13.
Johannes Peter Dukart [not Burgardt] (age 26) from Schuck and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schuck in Household No. Fz01.
Peter Dukart and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Franzosen in Household No. 21 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Husaren.
Peter Dukart and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Husaren in Household No. 6 along with a note that they had arrived in Husaren from Franzosen in 1825. His sons are recorded there in Households No. 29, 30, 72, 92, & 93.
The 1767 census records that Friedrich Rergard [sic] came from the German village of Bernkastel in the Trier region.
- 1834 Franzosen Census (Household No. 21).
- 1834 Husaren Census (Households No. 6, 29, 30, 31, 72, 92, 93, 97).
- 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): Fz01, Fz13, Sd12, Sm33, Mv0645.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 115.
Brent Mai
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