Ruquois
Spelling Variations:
Ruquois
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Franz Ruquois, a farmer, his wife Eva, and their daughter Maria Katharina (age 2) settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen on 28 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 6.
The 1767 census records that Franz Ruquois came from the French village of Laval.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 442.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai