Johann Reising, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Peter Reising (25), a farmer, his wife Anna Maria (age 32), and daughter Margaretha (age ¼) are recorded on the 1767 census of Göbel in Household No. 24. They had arrived in Göbel on 20 June 1767.
Anton Reising from Göbel and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Marienfeld.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Reising came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Peter Reising came from the German village of Hirschthal [?] in the Mainz region.
- 1857 Marienfeld Census.
- 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): 256.
- 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): Gb12, Gb68, Gb70.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 44.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1845.
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