Franz Reichert, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Gertruda, age 18; Johann, age 16¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Frantz Reichhardt [sic], his wife Elisabet, and chidlren (Gertraut, age 18¾; Johann, age 17½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that the mother Elisabet died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 7 June 1767. Franz and his new wife, the Widow Elisabeth Schmidt, are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 35.
Gottfried Reichert, Andreas Reichert, and Wilhelm Reichert and their families are recorded on an 1865 list of colonists who resettled to Lilienfeld along with a note that they had arrived in Lilienfeld from Boisroux on 30 March 1859.
Georg Peter Reichert and Anton Reichert and their families are recorded on an 1865 list of colonists resettling to Lilienfeld along with a note that they arrived in Lilienfeld from Boisroux on 24 March 1859.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Franz Reichhardt came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Franz Reichert came from the German village of Bingen in the Kurmainz region.
- 1865 Lilienfeld List.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 196.
- 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): Bx09.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 147.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1321.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1326-1329.
Brent Mai