Jean Baptiste Oudot, a plowman (laboureur), age 36, is recorded on a list of French colonists dated September 1764.
Jean Baptiste Oudeau, a blacksmith (Schmied), and his wife Anna Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen on 28 July 1765. They are recorded there on he 1767 census in Household No. 19.
Widow Katharina Oudeau is recorded on the 1798 census of Franzosen in Household No. Fz31.
The 1764 list of colonists record that Jean Baptiste Oudot came from the French region of Comte. The 1767 census records that Jean Baptiste Oudeau came from the French village of Bessan.
There do not appear to be any surviving male descendant lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas & Georg Rauschenbach. Die "Berufer": Abenteurer der Aufklärung in Katharinas II. Kolonisierungsprojekt (Moscow, 2019): 42.
- 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): Fz31.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 445.
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