Pracht (Katharinenstadt-1)
Johannes Prasch was born on 29 March 1731 in Orb, Maintz (now Bad-Orb), Hessen. He married there on 11 April 1758 to Susanna Ulrich, the daughter of Johann Ulrich and Barbara Müller. Susanna was born there on 19 October 1730. They arrived in Katharinenstadt on 3 August 1767 where they are listed in Household Number 16. They also came with their young daughter, Anna Maria (born 6 October 1760) who married Andreas Leikam.
This surname is listed as Pracht in the records in Russia.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ka016.
- McGinnis, Sean. The Founding Families of Catharine, Kansas (2007).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 279.
Sean McGinnis