Varnotte*

Charles Varnotte, a horse veternarian (Roßarzt), his wife Françoise, and children (Françoise, age 10; Karolina Josephina, age 5½; Charles, age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 112. They had settled there on 27 August 1766.

Charles Varnotte (age 38), a surgeon (Chirurgus), his wife Françoise née Vertott (age 36), and children (Françoise, age 17; Karolina Josepha, age 15; Charles, age 10; François, age 8; Gregorius, age 6; Melchior, age 4) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 134) along with a note that the entire family moved to Pokrovsk [Engels].

Both the 1767 census and the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register record that Charles Varnotte came from the town of Liège in Belgium. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Françoise née Vertott came from London in England.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.