Johannes Rühl, a farmer, and his wife Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Volmer on 18 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 38.
Georg Rühl, presumed son of Johannes Ruhl, and his family is recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm24.
The death of Georg Rühl in 1829 is recorded on the 1834 census of Husaren in Household No. 52. His family is also recorded there along with a note that son Anton relocated to the colony of Seelmann in 1826 and son Franz relocated to the colony of Neu-Kolonie.
Anton Rühl from Husaren and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Seelmann in Household No. 106 along with a note that they had arrived there in 1818.
Franz Rühl from Husaren and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 32.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Rühl came from the German village of Aschaffenburg in the Kurmainz region. [Research by Oleg Shubin of the parish in Aschaffenburg has revealed that they did not come from the town of Aschaffenburg, but evidently from one of the smaller villages surrounding Aschaffenburg.]
- 1834 Husaren Census (Household No. 52).
- 1834 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 32).
- 1834 Seelmann Census (Household No. 106).
- 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): Vm24.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 292.
Brent Mai
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