Rau (Huck)
The parish register of the Lutheran church in Büdingen records the marriage on 9 April 1766 of Philip Rau from Salmünster and Margaretha Eckert from Spielberg.
Johan Rauh, son of Philip Rauh (a farmer) & Anna Margar. Eckert - both from the region of Isenburg, was baptized 4 June 1766 in St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
They joined the migration to Russia.
Philipp Rau, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the pink Cargo under the command of Lieutenant Moses Davydov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 17 August 1767 where they are recorded on the 1767 Census in Household No. 71.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Rau came from the German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Fulda.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Hk69.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) : Origins and Destinations (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #504, #1318.
- Müller-Marschhausen, Ernst. “Russland-Auswanderer aus dem Bergwinkel um 1766 und die Spurensuche nach ihrer Rückkehr im 20. Jahrhundert.” [Online]
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 157.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4126.
Brent Mai