Rutz (Dönhof-2)
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Rutz (Dönhof-2)
Руцъ (Dönhof-2)
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Discussion & Documentation:
Johann Georg Rutz, a farmer, his wife Anna Eva, and daughter Katharina Elisabeth (age 1½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 97. They had settled in Dönhof on 18 June 1767.
Widower Georg Rutz and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dönhof in Household No. Dh102.
The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Rutz came from the German region of Darmstadt.
Sources:
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Dh102.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 1999): 367.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai