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Rausch (Frank)
Jacob Rausch was born 23 July 1739 in Nieder-Kinzig, son of master carpenter Johann Adam Rausch and his wife Elisabeth (Weber).
Jakob Rausch, a farmer, and his wife Anna Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the galliot Die Perle under the command of Skipper Thomson.
Johann Jacob Rausch, his wife Cathrina, and son Nicolaus (born en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Hoffmann (Frank-1)
Johann Heinrich Hof(f)mann, son of Johann Adam Hoffmann (31 August 1704 - 12 August 1771) & Anna Maria Helmstädter (18 July 1708 - 27 October 1752), was born about 1740 in Langen-Brombach.
Johann Heinrich Hofmann married on 22 October 1765 in Michelstadt to Margaretha Elisabeth Göttman from Kirch-Brombach. Following their marriage, they resided in Langenbrombach.
Romeis (Frank)*
Johannes Romeis, servant in the castle in Gersfeld, son of Georg Romeis in Kippelbach, was born 30 March 1715 in Kippelbach. He married 28 June 1748 in Gersfeld to Anna Heun, daughter of Peter Heun. She had been born 29 November 1717 in Kippelbach.
Johannes Romeis, his wife, and two children immigrated to Russia, arrving from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Reders.
Betz (Frank)*
Johann Jacob Best [sic], son of Hasnss Jacob & Maria Barbara Best, was born 18 May 1724 in Ochsenbach, Württemberg.
He married Maria Magdalena Henne, daughter of Johann Henne, on 5 November 1748 in Ochsenbach. Anna Christina (baptized Christina Barbara) was born 12 December 1760 in Ochsenbach.
Johann Betz, a farmer, his wife Magdalena, and children (Christina, age 5; Julianna, age 1½) arrived from Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Stangenrod, Kr. Gießen, Hessen
The first written mention of Stanginrode [sic] is from a document dated 1320.
From 1604 to 1806, the area encompassing Stangerod was located in the Landgrafschaft of Hessen-Darmstadt.
Today, Stagenrod is administratively part of the municipality of Grünberg.
The 1767 census records that one of the Kutscher families came from the German village of Atzenhain which is located about 2 kilometers northeast of Stangenrod, and just over the boarder into what today is Kreis Vogelsberg.
Church:
Stangenröder Str. 11
35305 Grünberg
Weitzel (Frank)
The marriage of Johann Georg Weitzel and Anna Elisabeth Mühl is recorded in Büdingen on 14 March 1766 along with the marriage of Johann Wilhelm Opfer & Eleonore Weitzel, also on 14 March 1766. Weitzel was recorded as being from "Stengerat" and Opfer from "Belterstein". There is not a place called "Stengerat" or a place called "Belterstein," but there is a Stangenrod with a Beltershain just west of it.