Widow Anna [Reis], her sons (Johannes, age 17; Konrad, age 12), and daughter Maria & son-in-law Johann Ries arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Anna [Reis], sons (Johannes, age 17½; Conrad, age 12), daughter Anna Maria & son-in-law Johannes Reiss [sic] are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Anna [Reis] died in route.
Johannes Reis [sic] (age 26), a farmer, his wife Maria née Reis (age 20) and her husband Johannes Reis [sic] (age 26), a farmer, are recorded on the 1767 census of Ernestinendorf in Household No. 14 along with her brothers (Johann Reis, age 18; Konrad Reis, age 15).
Johann Reis and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Ernestinendorf in Household No. Er08.
Konrad Reis from Ernestinendorf and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Näb in Household No. Nb14.
- 1834 Ernestinendorf Census (Households No. 6, 7, 14).
- 1857 Ernestinendorf Census (Household No. 9, 10).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 673.
- 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): Er08, Nb14.
- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga: 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): 1097-1101.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 398.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5346.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2968-2972.
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