Rausch (Semenovka)
Valentin Rausch, a farmer, his wife Ottilia, and daughter Elisabeth (age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Reders.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Semenovka on 24 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 37.
The 1767 census records that Valentin Rausch came from the German village of Tede [?] in the Fulda region.
- 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): Se39.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 187.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6507.
Brent Mai