Ruppel (Schwab)*
Franz Heinrich Ruppel, Joh. Christoph Ruppel (senior) & Anna Gertraud Vogel, was born 24 December 1743 in Fränkisch-Crumbach.
Franz Ruppel, a farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronstadt under the command of Lieutenant Samuel Gibbs.
In the parish records of Fränkisch-Crumbach, Franz Heinrich Ruppel, single man, is included in a list of immigrants.
He arrived in Schwab on 12 September 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 41 along with his [new] wife Eva Katharina [widow of Konrad Stuckart] and her children ([Se]bastian, age 14; Konrad, age 13; Margaretha Elisabeth, age 8).
Franz Heinrich Ruppel, his wife, and the daughter of his stepson [Sebastian Stuckart] are recorded on the 1798 census of Schwab in Household No. Sb31.
This 1767 Census records Franz Heinrich Ruppel being from the village of Raibach. The Oranienbaum passenger list records that he came from the German village of Grumbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Ruppel family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): Sb31.
- Ortsfamilienbuch Fränkisch-Crumbach [Online].
- Parish register of Fränkisch-Crumbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 136.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #2862.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording Franz Ruppel.
Source: Brent Mai.