Joseph Regner, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Joseph Regner and his wife Margaretha are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.
Joseph Reger [sic], a miller (Müller), and his wife Margaretha are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 95. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Joseph Regner came from the German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Lochowittig in the Pfalz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Regner family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 369.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4752.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5689-5690.
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