Richter (Katharinenstadt-1)
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Richter (Katharinenstadt-1)
Рихтеръ (Katharinenstadt-1)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Johann Albrecht Richter, a single cobbler (Schuhmacher), settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 178.
The 1767 census records that Johann Albrecht Richter came from the German village of Neuruppin in the Brandenburg region.
Sources:
- 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): Ka104.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 313.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai