Ritter / Reuter (Wittmann)*
Spelling Variations:
Ritter (Wittmann)*
Reuter (Wittmann)*
Ритеръ (Wittmann)*
Discussion & Documentation:
Peter Ritter and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm56 along with a note that they are in the colony of Schönchen grazing their cattle. The agricultural section of the 1798 census records his surname as Reuter.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Ritter family among the Volga German colonies.
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): Wm56.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai