Spelling Variations
Ras*
Разъ*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Jakob Ras, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 93) appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The 1767 census records that Jakob Ras came from the German village of Wirtheim.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Ras family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 367.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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