Kaucher

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Kaucher
Каухеръ
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Hanß Eberhard Kaucher, son of Hanß Jacob Kaucher & Anna Maria Müller, was baptized on 17 March 1684 in Stein. He married on 3 February 1711 in Lauffen to Elisabeth Wärtmann, daughter of Johann Michael Wärtmann.

Eberhard Kaucher, son of Hanß Eberhard Kaucher & Elisabeth Wärtmann, was born 16 February 1721 in Stein. He married Eva Eberle, daughter of Sebastian Eberle.

Among the children of Eberhard Kaucher & Eva Eberle was Johann Georg Kaucher, born on 6 January 1761 in Stein.

Eberhard Kaucher and his family immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein).

They left Denmark on 22 April 1765 and joined the migration to Russia.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Reinwald on 14 July 1766. Eberhard Kaucher, his wife Eva, and their children (Elisabeth, age 19; [a] Eberhard, age 18; [b] Johann Georg, age 6; Katharina, age 4; Rosina, age ¾) are recorded on the 1767 census of Reinwald in Household No. 26.

[a] The widow of Eberhard Kaucher and children (sons: Martin, age 10; Friedrich, age 3) are recorded on the 1798 census of Reinwald in Household No. Rw23.

Brothers Martin & Friedrich Kaucher are recorded on the 1811 census of Reinwald in Household No. 23.

[b] Johann Georg Kaucher and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Reinwald in Household No. Rw09.

[Johann] Georg Kaucher and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Reinwald in Household No. 9.

Jakob Kaucher, son of Johann Georg Kaucher, is recorded on the 1811 census of Reinwald in Household No. 9 along with a note that he and his son relocated to the colony of Schwed in 1801.

Jakob Kaucher from Reinwald and his son Christoph (age 2) are recorded on the 1811 census of Schwed in Household No. 4 along with a note that they had arrived in Schwed from Reinwald in 1801.

Sources: 

- 1811 Reinwald Census (Household No. 9, 23).
- 1811 Schwed Census (Household No. 4).
- Eichhorn, Alexander and Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The immigration of German colonists to Denmark and their subsequent emigration to Russia in the years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Steinmeier, 2012): 468.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Rw09, Rw23.
- Parish records of Stein (LDS Film #455304).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 36.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Dorothy Fulton

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies

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