Richter (Beauregard)
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Richter (Beauregard)
Рихтеръ (Beauregard)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Discussion & Documentation:
Ferdinand Richter, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Beauregard on 27 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 9 along with his stepdaughter Johanna Dietrich (age 4).
The 1767 census records that Ferdinand Richter came from the German region of Fulda.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 179.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai