Johann Reindorf, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Guilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Johannes Reindorff [sic], his wife Margretha, and son Hans Michell (age ¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Hans Michell died en route.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Semenovka on 24 July 1767 where widow Margaretha Reindorf is recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 24.
[In 1774, there is a Joseph Reindorf recorded as moving from Schönchen to St. Petersburg, but it is not know how or if he is connected to this family.]
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Reindorf came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Margaretha Reindorf came from the German region of Kurmainz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Reindorf family among the Volga German colonies.
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Brent Mai