Spelling Variations
Renke
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Christian Renke, his wife Maria, and daughter Dorothea (age 5) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schönchen in Household No. 12. They had settled there on 17 August 1767.
In 1774, Christian Renke moved from Schönchen to Penza.
The 1767 census records that Christian Renke came from the village of Seseneweks [?].
Sources
- 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): Mv2594.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 107.
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