Joseph Ritter, a cook, his wife Katharina, and daughter Elisabeth (age 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Joseph Ritter, his wife Katharina, and daughter Elisabet [sic] (age 12) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Joseph Ritter, a cook (Koch), his wife Katharina, and daughter Elisabeth (age 13) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 31.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Joseph Ritter came from the German region of Böhmen (Bohemia). The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of [T]Schaslau in the region of Böhmen (Bohemia).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Ritter family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 189.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 211.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1262.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1290-1292.
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