Othien
Julien Autin [sic], a distiller (distillateur), is recorded on a list of French colonists dated September 1764.
Joseph Ottien, a distiller (Weinbrenner), settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen on 28 July 1765. . He, his wife Maria, and their daughter Maria (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Franzosen in Household No. 14.
The death of Joseph Outin [sic] on 15 October 1816 is recorded in the parish register of Louis.
Various translations record this surname as Oten, Oudiu, and Utt.
The 1764 list of colonists records that Julien Autin [sic] came from the French region of Anjou. The 1767 census records that Joseph Ottien came from the French village of Château-Gontier.
- Idt, Andreas & Georg Rauschenbach. Die "Berufer": Abenteurer der Aufklärung in Katharinas II. Kolonisierungsprojekt (Moscow, 2019): 43.
- 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): Fz39.
- Parish register of Louis.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 444.
Brent Mai