Spelling Variations
Reich (Kratzke)*
Рейхъ (Kratzke)*
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Discussion & Documentation
Johann Heinrich Reich, a tailor (Schneider), his wife Elisabeth Katharina (age 20), and daughter Friedrika (age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kratzke in Household No. 23. They had arrived in Kratzke on 7 August 1766.
The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Reich came from the Polish village of Rabitsch [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Reich family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 454.
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