Rutt (Balzer)
Conrad & Anna Cornelia Ruth [sic] had the following child whose baptism is recorded in the parish register of Calbach: Carl Friedrich Maximillian, baptized 26 February 1733.
Conrad & Anna Margaretha Ruth [sic] had the following child whose baptism is recorded in the parish register of Calbach: Julianna, baptized 18 September 1740.
(1) Julianna Rutt married in Düdelsheim on 11 March 1766 to Andreas Kling, son of Philipp & Anna Barbara Kling. He had been born 31 May 1744 in Düdelsheim. [See Kling Family.]
Andreas Kling, a farmer, his wife Julianna [Rutt], and daughter Elisabeth (age ¾) are recorded on the 1767 census of Balzer in Household No. 43 along with Johannes Kling, the brother of Andreas. They had arrived in Balzer on 18 June 1767.
(2) Carl Friedrich Maximillian Rutt married in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen on 12 March 1766 to Elisabeth Wagner, the daughter of Johann Heinrich Wagner of Unterreichenbach, Hesse. She had been born 11 September 1746 in Unterreichenbach.
Karl Rutt, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on the 1767 census of Balzer in Household No. 44. They had arrived in Balzer on 18 June 1767.
The Elisabeth Rutt, widow of Karl Rutt, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Balzer in Household No. Bz087 along with a note that she and youngest son Sebastian are living in Dinkel with relatives.
In 1790, Andreas Rutt, presumed son of Karl Rutt, moved from Balzer to Laub.
Andreas Rutt is recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb36.
The 1767 census records that Karl Rutt came from the German region of Isenburg.
- Bonner, Wayne H. Volga German Settlers Identified in Isenburg and Other German Church Records Part I (Gardena, CA: Wayne Bonner, 2007): 23.
- 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): Bz087, Lb36, Mv0062.
- 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): #417.
- Parish register of Büdingen.
- Parish register of Calbach.
- Parish register of Düdelsheim.
- Parish register of Unterreichenbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 84.
Wayne Bonner
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Brent Mai