Christina (Schmidt) Rusch (abt. 1776)

Born about 1776 in Grimm, Saratov, Russia

Descendants

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Biography

Christina (Schmidt) Rusch was a Volga German.

Christina (Schmidt) Rusch has German Roots.

Family #93 in the 1798 Grimm census.
Family #139 in the 1834 Grimm census.

1798 Grimm Census ^[1]

Family # 93

Head of the Household Ernst Rusch, age 50

Spouse Anna Maria Müller, age 39

Child #1 Johann Peter, age 22

Wife of Child #1 Christina Schmidt, age 22

Child of Child #1 Elizabeta, age 6 months

Child #2 Johann Friedrich, age 20

Wife of Child #2 Elizabeta Erdman, age 19

Child of Child #2 Johann Peter, age 3 months

Child #3 Louisa, age 14

Child #4 Christina, age 11

1834 Grimm Census ^[2]

Family # 139

Head of the Household Anna Maria Rusch, age 78

Child #1 Johann Peter, age 57

Wife of Child #1 Christina, age 57

Grandchild #1 Ernst, age 35

Wife of Grandchild #1 Elisabeth, age 32

Great Grandchild #1 Alexander, age 8

Great Grandchild #2 Henrietta, age 6

Great Grandchild #3 Johann Peter, age 6

Great Grandchild #4 Christina Margaretha, age 1 year 6 months

Grandchild #2 Johann Heinrich, age 29

Wife of Grandchild #2 Elisabeth, age 27

Great Grandchild #5 Katharina Elisabeth, age 6 years 6 months

Grandchild #3 Georg Peter, age 25

Wife of Grandchild #3 Eva Katharina, age 23

Great Grandchild #6 Johann Peter, age 2

Great Grandchild #7 Johann Heinrich, age 6 months

Grandchild #4 Katharina Margaretha, age 23, unmarried

Grandchild #5 Georg Heinrich, age 22

Wife of Grandchild #5 Katharina Margaretha, age 21

Great Grandchild #8 Georg Jakob, age 1 year 6 months

Great Grandchild #9 Johann Heinrich, age 6 weeks

Grandchild #6 Christian Jakob, age 17, unmarried

Research Notes

Christina Schmidt was born just months after the 1775 census was taken, and married before the 1798 census, so she doesn't appear in a census record with her biological parents.

I've reviewed the Schmidt families who lived in Grimm at the time of the 1775 census.

Michael and Dorotea Schmidt, family #36

Dorotea was 49 years old in 1776, probably too old to continue to have children.

Johann Georg and Katharina Elisabeth Schmidt, family #35

He was 27 and his wife was 30; definitely could be Christina's parents.

Herman and Katharina Schmidt, family #148

He was 38 and she was 21; definitely could be Christina's parents.

Samuel and Anna Margareta Schmidt, family #162

He was 36 and she was 21; definitely could be Christina's parents.

I've eliminated Michael and Dorotea Schmidt as possible parents for Christina because of Dorotea's age at the time of Christina's birth.

In 1775, the Rusch family was #107 in the census. In terms of proximity, Herman and Katharina Schmidt lived the closest to the Rusches.

In 1798, there were five Schmidts living in Grimm. One of them, Johannes Schmidt, can be eliminated as Christina's father because he was too young. The other four are possible matches, but only Herman Schmidt and his wife Katharina Merkel lived reasonably close to the Rusch family, the Schmidts as family #85 and the Rusches as family #93. The others were families #4, #21, and #38.

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, NE, USA; Published 1995; family #107 in the 1798 census.
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; page 43, family #139.