Philippina Christina (Eberhard) Rau (abt. 1797 - bef. 1897)

Born about 1797 in Grimm, Saratov, Russia

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Died before 1897 before about age 100 in Grimm, Saratov, Russia

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Biography

Christina (Eberhard) Rau was a Volga German.

Christina (Eberhard) Rau has German Roots.

Family #40 in the 1798 Grimm census.
Family #183 in the 1834 Grimm census.
Family #206 in the 1857 Grimm census.

Philippina Christina Eberhard was born in 1797 in Grimm, Russia, to parents Wilhelm Eberhard and Elisabeth Reifschneider. She had four siblings:

1. Barbara Eberhard, born in 1795
2. Tobias Eberhardt [half], born 1805
3. Katharina Barbara Eberhardt [half], born 1812
4. Andreas Ring [step], born 1809

She married Johann Wilhelm Rau by 1817 and the couple went on to have nine children:

1. Johann Nikolaus Rau, born 1818, probably a twin
2. Katharina Barbara Rau, born 1818, probably a twin
3. Christina Margaretha Rau, born 1820
4. Maria Katharina (Rau) Schäfer, born 1821
5. Elisabeth Rau, born 1825
6. Johann Jakob Rau, born 1826
7. Eva Katharina Rau, born 1831
8. Johann Georg Rau, born 1833
9. Philipp Jakob Rau, born 1836

She was still living as of the 1857 census when she was 60 years of age.

1798 Grimm Census ^[1]

Family # 40

Head of the Household Wilhelm Eberhard, age 27

Wife Elisabeth Reifschneider Eberhard, age 23

Child #1 Barbara Eberhard, age 3

Child #2 Christina Eberhard, age 1

Stepfather Christian Seifert, age 42

Stepfather's Wife Elisabeth Knorr, age 26

Child #3 Elisabeth Seifert, age 1

1834 Grimm Census ^[2]

Family # 183

Head of the Household Johann Philipp Rau, age 48 in 1816, deceased 1831

Child #1 Johann Wilhelm Rau, age 42

Wife of Child #1 Philippina Rau, age 37

Grandchild #1 Johann Nikolaus Rau, age 16, possible twin

Grandchild #2 Katharina Barbara Rau, age 16, possible twin

Grandchild #3 Christina Margaretha Rau, age 14

Grandchild #4 Maria Katharina Rau, age 13

Grandchild #5 Elisabeth Rau, age 9

Grandchild #6 Johann Jakob Rau, age 7 years 6 months

Grandchild #7 Eva Katharina Rau, age 3

Grandchild #8 Johann Georg Rau, age 1

1857 Grimm Census ^[3]

Family # 206

Head of the Household Wilhelm Rau, age 65

Wife Christina Rau, age 60

Child #1 Nikolaus Rau, age 39

Grandchild #1 Katharina Margaretha Rau, age 15

Grandchild #2 Anna Katharina Rau, age 8

Grandchild #3 Anna Elisabeth Rau, age 5

Grandchild #4 Christian Jakob Rau, age 4

Grandchild #5 Johannes Rau, age 3, possible twin

Grandchild #6 Anna Katharina Rau, age 3 possible twin

Child #2 Johann Jakob Rau, age 30

Wife of Child #2 Katharina Elisabeth Rau, age 25

Grandchild #7 Georg Jakob Rau, age 2

Grandchild #8 Karl Rau, age 9 months

Child #3 Johann Georg Rau, age 24

Child #4 Philipp Jakob Rau, age 21

Research Notes

I can find no Philippina in the 1798 Grimm census where she should have been listed as a one-year-old.

In comparing the 1834 census with the 1857 census, it looks like Philippina and Christina are the same person. Either they were a first and a middle name, or there may have been a clerical error in recording the correct name by the census taker. These two women appear to be the same person because:

• Both appear as the wife of Wilhelm Rau, family #183 in the 1834 census, and family #206 in the 1857 census.

• Both are the same age.

• In the 1857 census, she is not listed as the step-mother of the same children that appeared in the 1834 census.

• She is not listed in the 1857 census as Wilhelm Rau's second wife.

If they are the same person, then she was, in fact, born in Grimm to Wilhelm Eberhard and his wife Elizabeta Reifschneider, who was originally from Kutter. Wilhelm Eberhard's parents were Georg Eberhard and his wife Ursula, both original settlers of the Colony of Grimm.

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 #40 in the 1798 Grimm census, Wilhelm Eberhard 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; page 55, family #183, Johann Philipp Rau family.
3. ↑ 1857 Census of Grimm in the District of Saratov, Russia, dated 5 November 1857; Translated by Brent Mai, Concordia University, Portland, Oregon; Published by Dynasty Publishing, Beaverton, OR, USA; Published 2005; page 77, family #206, Wilhelm Rau family.