Friedrich [sic] Riedler, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Maria Sophia under the command of Skipper Johann Bauert.
Heinrich Riedlew, a farmer, his wife Anna, and [step-]son Johann Peter [surname not recorded] (age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. 30. They had settled there on 5 September 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friedrich [sic] Riedler came from the German region of Danzig. The 1767 census records that Heinrich Riedlew came from the German village of Varel in the Oldenburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 343.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 211.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2566.
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