Friedrich Rebensdorf, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughter Elisabeth (age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 May 1766 aboard the Russian galliot Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Röder.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dinkel on 12 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 24.
The widow of Friedrich Rebensdorf and children are recorded on the 1798 census of Dinkel in Household No. Dn06.
The 1767 census records that Friedrich Rebensdorf came from the German village of Plopdorf in the Holstein region.
- 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): Dn06.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 303.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #311.
Brent Mai
Pre-Volga Origin
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