Johann Jacob Rein, son of Johann Jacob & Anna Catharina Rein, was born 6 May 1706 in Mettenheim. He married there on 2 March 1734 to his first wife Anna Catharina Lucius, daughter of Christian Friedrich Lucius. She died there on 5 October 1748 in childbirth. He then married in Mettenheim on 23 January 1749 to Anna Elisabeth Weinbach, daughter of Johannes & Catharina Gertraud Weinbach.
Among their children, the following sons were born there: Johann Jacob (born 13 August 1750) and Johann Melchior (born 16 February 1752).
Jakob Rein, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 17½; Melchior, age 15¼; Christina, age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Svyatoi Pavel (St. Paul) under the command of the Lieutenant Fyedor Sornev.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dietel the 1767 Census in Household No. 39 [although the published 1767 census records the surname there as Reis]. By the time that the 1798 Census was taken, both boys and their families had moved to the colony of Merkel. Subsequent generations can also be found in a number of daughter colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 357.
- 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): Mr06, Mr10.
- Parish records of Mettenheim (LDS Film No. 1442055).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 294.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2693.
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Brent Mai