Retz
An article by Hermann Wäschke records the following going to Russia:
Dorothea Rätz, widow of Andreas from Limtsch, born in Griesen, and her 10-year-old son. She has been living on charity (Schwartzen Stamme) and owns nothing herself.
Christoph Retz (age 16) is recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 34 along with his stepfather Gottfried Klehmann.
Christoph Retz and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kaneau in Household No. Kn20.
Christoph's widow and children are recorded on the 1834 census of Kaneau in Household No. 4.
The 1767 census does not record from where Christoph Retz came.
- 1834 Kaneau Census (Households No. 4, 70).
- 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): Kn20.
- 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): #1135.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 251.
- Wäschke, Hermann. "Deutsche Familien in Russland" in Roland, Archiv für Stamm- und Wappenkunde, Jubiläumsschrift, 18 January 1912: 84.
Brent Mai