Elisabeth Ruhl (abt. 1773)

Born about 1773 in Kraft, Saratov, Russia

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Grimm, Saratov, Russia

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Biography

Elisabeth Ruhl was a Volga German.

Elisabeth Ruhl has German Roots.

Family #33 in the 1798 Grimm census.

1798 Grimm Census ^[1]

Family # 33

Head of the Household Ludwig Vaas, age 47

Wife Katharina Weber Vaas, age 56

Child #1 Johann Georg Vaas, age 20

Wife of Child #1 Elisabth Ruhl, age 25, from Kraft

Child #2 Christoph Vaas, age 14

At some point between 1798 and 1834, Elisabeth Ruhl Waag's two sons with Johann Georg Waag went to live with their uncle and aunt, Christoph and Elisabeth Waag. I searched the Grimm 1834 census, and Elisabeth and her husband's names do not appear anywhere in it. ^[2] While it's possible that they moved to another village, it would have been highly unlikely for them to do that without their sons and grandchildren, if any. It's more likely that the couple passed away and their sons, too young to live on their own, went to live with their paternal uncle. In the late 1820s, both men married and were then given households of their own.

Sources

1. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Census of the German Colony on the Volga, Lesnoy Karamysh, also known as Grimm; Published by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA; Published date: 1995; family # 33 in the 1798 Grimm census, Ludowig [sic] Vaas family.
2. ↑ 1834 Census of Grimm in the District of Saratov, Russia, dated 2 February 1835; Translated by Brent Mai, Concordia University, Portland, Oregon; Published by Dynasty Publishing, Beaverton, OR, USA; Published 2011. See page 13, the entry for family #42, his brother Christoph Waag, and Christoph's two nephews Christoph, line 425, and Heinrich, line 426. The footnotes refer to them as nephews by an unnamed brother, but Christoph Waag only had one brother, Johann Georg Waag.