Rebling*

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Rebling*
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Johann Christoph Rebling, his wife Katharina, and children (Katharina, age 18½; Sophia, age 16¼; Dorothea, age 14; Maria, age 12; Friedrika, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.

Johann Christoph Rebling, his wife Sophia Catharina, and children (Catharina, age 18½; Sophia,age 14; Dorothea, age12; Maria, age 9) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Christoph Rebling, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Katharina, and stepdaughters [whose surnames are not recorded] (Dorothea Elisabeth, age 14; Christina Maria, age 12) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Biberstein in 1768.

The 1767 census records that Johann Christoph Rebling came from the German village of Altenstein.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources: 

- Oranienbaum passenger list #6659 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 220.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4087-4092.

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