The baptisms of two children to Johann Conrad & Anna Maria Reuter have been located in the parish registers of Meerholz & Hailer: (1) Anna Dorothea, baptized 22 November 1762 in Meerholz; and (2) Johannes, baptized 19 September 1764 in Hailer.
Konrad Reuter, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Anna, age 22; Katharina, age 17¼; Charlotta, age 13; Anna, age 11; Philipp, age 7; Johann, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 June 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Святой Николай (St. Nicolaus) under the command of Midshipman Thomas McKenzie.
Johann Konrad Reuter, his wife Anna Maria, and daughters (Charlotta, age 14; Anna Maria, age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 34. They had settled there on 18 June 1767.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Konrad Reuter came from the German region of Isenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Reuter family among the Volga German 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): 180.
- Parish register of Meerholz.
- Parish register of Hailer.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 164.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1187.
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Wayne Bonner