Rennert (Bauer)
Johann Georg Renner[t], a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Bauer on 2 September 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 55 along with his new wife Anna Dorothea, the widow of Peter Karl Schlege, and her son Johannes Schlege (age 3).
Georg Rennert and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br24.
Heinrich Rennert, son of Georg Rennert, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Bauer in Household No. 101.
Johann Jakob Rennert, son of Georg Rennert, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Bauer in Household No. 146.
The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Renner[t] came from the German village of Groß Ellingen in Sachsen (Saxony).
[In some records/translations, the surname of Rennert has been comingled with the surname of Rahnert.]
- 1834 Bauer Census (Households No. 101, 146).
- 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): Br24.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 130.
Brent Mai