Johannes Rudel, son of Pancratius Rudel, married on 5 October 1739 in St. Johannes der Täufer Catholic Church in Ludwag to Agnes Strohmer, daughter of Hanns Strohmer.
The baptisms of the children born to Johannes Rudel & Agnes Strohmer are recorded in the parish register of St. Johannes der Täufer Catholic Church in Ludwag: (1) Johann Kaspar, baptized 2 February 1744; (2) Helena, baptized 17 November 1746; (3) Johannes Kaspar, baptized 13 November 1747; (4) Catharina, baptized 28 September 1750; and (5) Johannes, baptized 7 February 1752.
Johannes Rudel, a farmer, his wife Agnessa, and sons (Kaspar, age 20; Johann, age 18) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit (Vigilance) under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.
Johannes Riedel, his wife Agnesa, and sons (Caspar, age 20; Johannes, age 18) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johannes Rudel, a farmer, his wife Agnessa, and sons (Kaspar, age 20; Johannes, age 18) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 62 along with daughter Agnessa (age 23) who had been recently widowed during the transport of Lieutenant Beshevin. [Daughter Agnessa does not appear in the 1767 census publication by Igor Pleve.] They had arrived in Leitsinger on 5 September 1767.
After Leitsinger was destroyed in 1774, the Rudel family resettled in the colony of Neu-Kolonie.
They are recorded there on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie with son Kaspar in Household No. Nk02 and the descendants of son Johann[es] in Households No. Nk27 and Nk28.
The death of Kaspar Rudel in 1825 is recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 8.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Rudel came from the German region of Bamberg. The 1767 census records that Johannes Rudel came from the German village of Ludwag in the Bamberg region.
- 1834 Leitsinger Census (Households No. 8, 44, 53, 63, 70).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 769.
- 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): Nk02, Nk27, Nk28, Nk39.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 74.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6153.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7625-7528.
Brent Mai
João Vicente Akwa
Entry from the parish register of St. Johannes der Täufer Catholic Church in Ludwag recording the marriage of Johannes Rudel & Agnes Strohmer on 5 October 1739.
Source: João Vicente Akwa.
Entry from the 1767 census of Leitsinger recording the family of Johannes Rudel.