Two Reis families arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 27 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Слон (Slon - Elephant in Russian) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
(1) Hans [Adam] Reiss, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Justina (age 1½) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Adam Reis (age 38), a farmer, and his wife Katharina (age 36) are recorded on the 1767 census of Hildmann in Household No. 1 along with a note that Adam Reis was serving as the colony's mayor (Vorsteher). They had arrived in Hildmann on 14 May 1767.
(2) Wilhelm Reis, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived in Oranienbam.
Wilhelm Reis (age 31), a farmer, and his wife Katharina (age 31) are recorded on the 1767 census of Hildmann in Household No. 4. They had arrived in Hildmann on 14 May 1767.
Dorothea Ziegler née Reis (age 31), her brother Johannes Reis (age 26), and their families are recorded on the 1798 census of Hildmann in Household No. Hd34. At this time, it is not known whether they are children of Hans or Wilhelm.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Hans Reis families came from the Netherlands and that Wilhelm Reis came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that both of these Reis families came from the German village of Aschaffenburg.
- 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): 107.
- 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): Hd34.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 97, 98.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #549, #569.
Brent Mai