Sebastian Rahnert (age 15) settled in the Volga German colony of Pfeifer on 20 August 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 57 along with his sister Maria Kunigunda and her husband Franz Schirmer.
The 1798 census of Köhler records Sebastian Rahnert from Pfeifer in Household No. Kl09 along with his wife [Anna] Rosina Friebel, widow of Gottfried Köhler [not Friedrich Herber], and her son Gustav Köhler.
Kunigunda Schirmer née Rahnert and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf08.
The 1767 census does not record from where Sebastian Rahnert came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Kl09, Pf08.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 391.
Brent Mai