Rahnert (Bauer)

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Rahnert (Bauer)
Ранертъ (Bauer)
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Philipp Rahnert, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Anna Margaretha, age 10; Johann Heinrich, age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Bauer in Household No. 25. They had settled there on 20 July 1766.

Philipp Rahnert and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household Br52.

Friedrich Rahnert, presumed son of Philipp Rahnert, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br06.

The 1767 census records that Philipp Rahnert came from the German village of Meißenheim in Württemberg.

[In some records/translations, the surname of Rahnert has been comingled with the surname of Rennert.]

Sources: 

- 1834 Bauer Census (Households No. 20, 21, 86).
- 1857 Bauer Census (Households No. 20, 21, 42, 90).
- 1857 Neu-Bauer Census.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Br06, Br52.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1247.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 1999): 122.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies