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Ras*

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Spelling Variations: 
Ras*
Разъ*
Settled in the Following Colonies: 
Unknown Colony
Pre-Volga Origin: 
Wirtheim, Kr. Main-Kinzig, Hessen
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.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies