Christian Reich [sic], his wife Johanna, and children (Karl, age 13; Christian [sic], age 11) 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.
Christian Gottlob Reiche, his wife Johanna Christiana, and children (Carl Heinrich, age 13; Christiana, age 11) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Christian Gottlieb Reichert [sic], his wife Johanna, and children (Karl, age 14; Christina, age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 1. They had settled in Paulskaya on 7 June 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Reich [sic] was a merchant from the German region of Bielefeld. The 1767 census records that he was a blacksmith (Schmied) from the German village of Bödefeld.
Some publications record this surname as Reichert, but Reiche seems to be more accurate.
- 1834 Paulskaya Census (Households No. 21, 46).
- 1850 Paulskaya Census (Households No. 27, 57).
- 1857 Paulskaya Census (Households No. 28, 64).
- 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): 222.
- 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): Pl38.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 331.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1570.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1062-1065.
Brent Mai