Reuscher (Unknown)*
Spelling Variations:
Рейшеръ (Unknown)*
Reuscher (Unknown)*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Peter Reuscher, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Katharina, age 4; Johann, age 9-months) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 27.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The 1767 census records that Peter Reuscher came from the German village of Alt[en]kirchen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Reuscher family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 268.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai