Anna Katharina (Stoll) Rau (abt. 1766 - bef. 1834)

Born about 1766 in Dönhof, Saratov, Russia

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Died before 1834 before about age 68 in Grimm, Saratov, Russia

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Katharina (Stoll) Rau was a Volga German.

Katharina (Stoll) Rau has German Roots.

Family #16 in the 1767 Dönhof census.
Family # 19 in the 1775 Dönhof census.
Family #35 in the 1798 Grimm census.

Anna Katharina Stoll was the daughter of Friedrich Stoll who immigrated to Denmark first, before making a final immigration to the Volga region of Russia. ^[1] His first wife, Maria Eva Schumacher, bore him two children, both who died in infancy, and she herself perished in Denmark in 1763. ^[2] His second marriage was to Anna Katharina's mother, Dorothea Elisabetha Rutz, in Denmark, and their first daughter, Eva Catharina, was born in 1766, ^[3] during the couple's journey to Russia or in Dönhof.

Anna Katharina's name is not specifically mentioned in the 1767 Dönhof census, and since the birth years for the two sisters match, there is a question of whether Anna Katharina Stoll and Eva Catharina Stoll are the same person.

1767 Dönhof Census ^[4]

Family # 16

Head of the Household Friedrich Stoll, age 33, Lutheran farmer from Kurpfalz

Wife Anna Catharina Stoll, age 23

Child #1 Eva Katharina Stoll, age 1

Eva Katharina is also named in the 1775 Grimm census and identified as being 8 years old. ^[5] The 1775 census mentions another daughter Maria Elisabeth, but no Anna Katharina. ^[6] Anna Katharina would have been only 8 years old in 1775, the same age as Eva Katharina, not old enough to be living with another family or married.

By the time of the 1798 census, Anna Katharina had six additional siblings listed in the Dönhof census: ^[7]

• Johann Christopher, born 1775
• Johann Wilhelm, born in 1778
• Elisabeth Barbara, born in 1780
• Johannes, born 1784
• Johann Heinrich, born in 1786
• Katharina Elisabeth, born in 1789

By 1798, both Anna Katharina and her possible sister Eva Catharina were old enough to be married and living with other families. The 1798 Grimm census claims Anna Katharina was from the Village of Dönhof, born in 1766. She and her husband Johann Philipp Rau had five children:.

1798 Grimm Census ^[8]

Family # 35

Head of the Household Balthasar Rau, age 67

Child #1 Philipp Rau, age 31

Wife of Child #1 Anna Katharina Stoll, age 32, from Dönhof

Grandchild #1 Johann Wilhelm Rau, age 7

Grandchild #1 Gottfried Rau, age 1

Grandchild #1 Anna Margaretha Rau, age 9

Grandchild #1 Juliana Rau, age 6

Grandchild #1 Margaretha Rau, age 3

Only daughter Stoll daughter Eva Catharina is listed in Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767, and she is the same age as Anna Katharina. No other children are listed. There were no other Stolls living in Dönhof. ^[9] I double checked the Stoll family that settled immediately in Grimm, and they had no daughter named Anna Katharina who was born in 1766. ^[10]

By 1834, neither Anna Katharina nor her husband are listed in the census, but her son Wilhelm and his children are listed there. ^[11] She most likely died prior to the census being taken.

Sources

1. ↑ Eichhorn, Alexander, Dr., and Dr. Jacob and Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766, Druck and Bindung: Druckerei and Verlap Steinmeier GmbH & Co. KG, 86738, Deiningen, Germany; Published 2012; page 618, Friedrich Stoll.
2. ↑ The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766, page 618.
3. ↑ The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766, page 618.
4. ↑ Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767, Band 1, Herausgegeben von Alfred Eisfeld under Mitarbeit von Sabine Eichwald, Published by the Nordost-Instsitut - 38085 Göttingen, 2005; page 345, Friedrich Stoll family.
5. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Census Revisions of The Volga German Colony of Gololobovka, also known as Dönhof; Published by: The American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA: Published date: 1995, family #19, Eva Katarina Stoll, age 8.
6. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Census Revisions of The Volga German Colony of Gololobovka, also known as Dönhof, family #19.
7. ↑ Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga, Volume 1; Published by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, Nebraska, Published 1999, 2005; page 374, Friedrich Stoll, age 68.
8. ↑ 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 #35 in the 1798 Grimm census, Balthasar Rau family.
9. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Census Revisions of The Volga German Colony of Gololobovka, also known as Dönhof.
10. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Census of the German Colony on the Volga Lesnoy Karamysh, also known as Grimm, family #35.
11. ↑ 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; page 55, family #183.