Richter (Seelmann)

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An article by Wilhelm Funk records the following going to Russia:

Anton Richter, a farmer (Bauersmann), son of the deceased Gg. Richter, farmer (Bauer) in Vaslavitz near Neuschlosz in Bohemia, & Cathar,Wagner, daughter of the deceased Joh. Gg. Wagner, master weaver (Webermeister) in Bischofstriniz in Bohemia, both Catholic, were married 26 May 19766 in the Lutheran Church in Wöhrd.

Anton Richter, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Heinrich Sager.

Antonyus [sic] Richter and his wife Cathrina are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Seelmann on 5 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 54.

The 1767 census records that Anton Richter came from the German village of Neuschloß in Böhmen (Bohemia). The 1767 census also records that his wife Katharina came from the German village of Waslawiz bei Neuschloß in Böhmen (Bohemia).

Sources: 

- Funk, Wilhelm. "Deutsche a Is russische Colonisten: ausgezogen aus dem Wöhrder Traubuch 1766/67." Blätter für fränkische Familienkunde, 1:3 (1926): 101-107.
- 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): #814.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 159.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6140.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7589-7590.

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