There are three Ries families that arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a barque named Fortitudo (Fortitude) under the command of Skipper John Scott. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Widow Anna Ries arrived in Oranienbaum.
It is not known what happened to Anna Ries after her arrival in Oranienbaum.
(2) Johann Ries, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Barbara [Katharina], age 14; Johann, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a barque named Fortitudo (Fortitude) under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Johannes Riess [sic] and his children (Barbara Catrina, age 14; Johannes, age 7) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father Johannes Riess died en route.
Orphan Barbara Katharina Ries is recorded on the 1767 census of Müller in Household No. 10 along with the Konrad Klein family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Ries and Klein families.
(3) Widower Andreas Ries, a farmer, and his sons (Johann, age 7; Balthasar, age 4; Johann, age 13-days) arrived in Oranienbaum.
It is not known what happened to Andreas Ries and his sons after arrival in Oranienbaum.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that all of these families came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census record that Johann Ries came from the German region of Darmstadt.
There do not appear to be any surviving male descendant lines of this Ries family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 463, 465, 466.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 177.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3617, #3629, #3634.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1962-1964.
Brent Mai