Richter (Bettinger-2)*
Spelling Variations:
Richter (Bettinger-2)*
Рихтеръ (Bettinger-2)*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Discussion & Documentation:
Henrietta / Johanna Richter arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink along with her daughter Elisabeth and son-in-law Johann Schlehe.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Bettinger on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 11.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Richter family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 134.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4404.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai