Ruppel (Reinwald-2)
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Ruppel (Reinwald-2)
Рупель (Reinwald-2)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Valentin Ruppel, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Reinwald on 14 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 45.
The 1767 census records that Valentin Ruppel came from the German village of Lauterbach.
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): Rw35.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 41.
Immigrated to the following locations: