Friedrich Rebensdorf, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughter Elisabeth (age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 May 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Katharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Friedrich Rebensdorf (age 25), a farmer, and his wife Anna Magdalena (age 21) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dinkel in Household No. 24. They had arrived in Dinkel on 12 July 1767.
The widow of Friedrich Rebensdorf and children are recorded on the 1798 census of Dinkel in Household No. Dn06.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friedrich Rebensdorf came from the German region of Holstein. The 1767 census records that Friedrich Rebensdorf came from the German village of Plopdorf in the Holstein region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 82.
- 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.
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