Johann Heinrich Raith was born 31 August 1729 in Blankenbach. He married Anna Martha Schneider.
The birth of a daughter born to Johann Heinrich Raith & Anna Martha Schneider is recorded in Blankenbach on 27 November 1762: Anna Elisabeth Raith.
Heinrich Reith, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Andreas, age 9; Anna, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Heinrich Reith, a farmer, his [new] wife Maria, and children (Andreas, age 11; Anna, age 6) are recorded in Household No. 21 on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census of the Volga Germans along with his stepsons: Jakob Bolwin, age 20 & Philipp Bolwin, age 14.
Son Andreas Reith is recorded on the 1798 census in Zürich in Household No. Zr32.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Reith came from the German village of Blankenbach.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 35.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 883.
- 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): Zr32.
- Parish register of Blankenbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 353.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #7216.
Brent Mai
Andreas Raith