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Ritter (Unknown)*

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Spelling Variations: 
Ritter (Unknown)*
Ритеръ (Unknown)*
Settled in the Following Colonies: 
Unknown Colony
Pre-Volga Origin: 
Čáslav, Středočeský kraj, Czech Republic
Discussion & Documentation: 

Joseph Ritter, a cook, his wife Katharina, and daughter Elisabeth (age 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

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.

Sources: 

- 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.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies