Johann Reber, a farmer, his wife Anna, and sons (Johann, age 3; Konrad, age 8-weeks) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a barque named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Bangert on 1 July 1767. Johann's wife Anna died and he remarried to Susanna Geis, widow of Johann Heinrich Geis. They are recorded on the 1767 census of Bangert in Household No. 14 along with the surviving Geis sons. [See Geis Family.]
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Reber was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a butcher (Fleischer).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Reber came from the German region of Wetau. The 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Freiburg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 438.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 108.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3412.
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