Johann Georg Rauh, a son of Johann Martin Rauh & Eva Maria Bender, was born on 12 October 1700 and baptized on 13 October 1700 in the Lutheran Church of Altheim, located about 18 kilometers northeast of Darmstadt. He married to Anna Margaretha Eidmann, daughter of Conrad Eidmann, on 28 January 1744 in Altheim.
According to the Family Book in the Altheim Parish records, they had eight children, most of them baptized in Althheim: twins Eva Maria and Anna Regina, born 21 July 1745 (both died); Catharina Agatha, born 15 February 1745; Johann Georg, born on 29 October 1748 and baptized on 31 October 1748; Ottilia, born on 10 February 1751, and baptized on 12 February 1751; Johann Adam, born on 16 September 1752, and baptized on 18 September 1752; Johann Peter, born on 12 March 1755, and baptized on 14 March 1755; and Helena, born on 2 February 1756. The Family Book notes that the family migrated to Russia on 6 March 1766.
On their journey to the Volga German colonies, daughter Catharina married Johannes Bischoff. All of them arrived in the colony of Dobrinka on 20 June 1767.
They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 77. Daughter Catharina and her family are registered in Household No. 79. Son Johann Georg, single, is listed in Household No. 90.
On the 1798 census of Dobrinka , descendants of this family are recorded in Households No. Db01, Db22, and Db46.
- Parish records of Altheim, Dekanat Groß-Umstadt, accessed on Archion.de
- Indexes of Parish records of Altheim
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): pp. 334 and 338.
- 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).