Peter Reichenborn, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and son Konrad (age 13) settled in the Volga German colony of Schuck on 18 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 12.
Peter Reichenborn and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schuck in Household No. Su19.
Son Konrad Reichenborn from Schuck and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Köhler in Household No. Kl18.
The following are also believed to be sons of Peter Reichenborn:
(1) Nikolaus Reichenborn and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schuck in Household No. Su04.
(2) Jakob Reichenborn and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schuck in Household No. Su16.
The 1767 census records that Peter Reichenborn came from the German village of Essingen.
[Some translations record this surname as Regenbach, but Reichenborn is correct according to subsequent documents.]
- 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): Kl18, Su04, Su16, Su19.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 113.
Brent Mai