Sebastian Rick [sic], a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and son Kaspar (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Die Jungfer Friederika under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.
Sebastian Rückert, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and daughter Katharina (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Preuss in Household No. 4. They had settled there on 12 May 1767.
The 1767 census records that Sebastian Rückert came from the German village of Algesheim in the Kurmainz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Rückert family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 148.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 414.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #902.
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