Johannes Heinrich Reuel [sic] died in Gelnhausen. He had been married to Johanna Margaretha Buss, daughter of Wilhelm Buss. She had been born in 1711 in Gelnhausen. They have the following children, each born in Gelnhausen: (1) Anna Maria, born 10 May 1730; (2) Johanna Margaretha, born 12 February 1733; (3) Johann Peter, born 29 September 1735; (4) Johann Wilhelm, born 19 May 1743; (5) Konrad Heinrich, born 31 May 1745; (6) Adam Wilhelm, born 23 Mary 1749; and (7) Maria Frederike, born 17 July 1754.
Widow Margaretha Ruhl [sic] arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard Der Junge Mathias along with son Wilhelm and two additional children (Konrad [Nafts], age 18; Margartha [Kraus], age 17).
They are recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 76 along with the orphaned daughter of Heinrich Kraus (Margaretha, age 18) and the orphaned son of Philipp Nafts (Konrad, age 20). The 1767 census does not record a relationship among the Reil, Kraus, and Nafts families.
There are three letters in the city archives of Gelnhausen that Wilhelm wrote to various parties between 1787 and 1790.
Wilhelm Reil and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dönhof in Household No. Dh054.
Johann Konrad Reil, son of Wilhelm Reil, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Dönhof in Household No. 106.
Philipp Reil, son of Wilhelm Reil, and his family are recored on the 1834 census of Dönhof in Household No. 124.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Widow Margaretha Ruhl [sic] came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that she came from the German village of Gelnhausen.
- 1834 Dönhof Census (Households No. 106-124).
- 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): Dh054.
- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga: 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): 122-123, 707-723, 728-729, 736.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 362.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1860.
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