Johann Gottfried Rauschenbach, son of Johann David Rauschenbach & Dorothea Bauer, was born in 1719 in Leipzig. He married Johanna Elisabeth Geißling.
They had the following children born in Leipzig: (1) Johanna Elisabeth, born in 1741; (2) Karl Friedrich, born in 1744; (3) Johann Daniel, born in 1746, died in 1748; (4) Johann Christian Friedrich, born in 1749, died in 1750; and (5) Carolina Christina, born in 1753. Johann Elisabeth née Geißling died in 1757 and Johann Gottfried remarried to Maria Katharina Schack. They had the following children born in Leipzig: (1) Johann Gottfried, born in 1759, died in 1760; (2) Johanna Katharina, born in 1761; (3) Johann Gottfried, born in 1763; and (4) Christian Heinrich, born in 1766, died in 1767. Father Johann Gottfried died in 1772. Maria Katharina née Schack died in 1793.
Carl Friedrich Rauschenbach & Sophia Friederique Grune were married on 26 June 1766 in Roßlau.
Friedrich Rauschenbach and his wife Sophia arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Friderich Rauschenbach and his wife Sophia are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Karl Rauschenbach, a merchant, and his wife Johanna settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 20.
In 1792, Gottfried Rauschenbach moved from Nieder-Monjou to Katharinenstadt.
Gottfried Rauschenbach from Nieder-Monjou and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka033.
Gottfried Rauschenbach and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 36.
The Oranienbaum passenger list does not record from where Friedrich Rauschenbach came. The 1767 census records that Karl Rauschenbach came from the German town of Leipzig.
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Household No. 36).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 828.
- 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): Ka033, Mv1919.
- Mai, Brent Alan. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga, 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): #2180-2181.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1030.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6636 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 189.
- Rauschenbach Family Tree [Online]
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4051-4052.
Brent Mai