The recorded in the parish register of St. Mauritius Catholic Church in Hohen-Sülzen are the baptisms of the following children born to Johannes Reheis & Elisabetha Baumann, each born in Hohen-Sülzen: (1) Franziska, born 20 August 1758; and (2) Josepha Margaretha, born 6 May 1763, died 19 May 1763.
Johannes Rehauser, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Katharina, age 17¼; Peter, age 16¼; Christina, age 14; Franzisca, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Neptunus (Neptune) under the command of Skipper Johann Graap.
Johann Rehhauser [sic], his wife Maria, and children (Catharina, age 19; Peter, age 17¼; Christina, age 14; Francisca, age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 with a note that father Johann died en route.
Widow Elisabeth Rehauser and the children settled in the Volga German colony of Rothammel on 21 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 27.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Rehauser came from the region of Worms while the 1767 census records that the family came from the German village of Sillers in the Lothringen region.
There are no surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 733.
- Parish register of St. Mauritius Catholic Church in Hohen-Sülzen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 86.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5866.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6433-6438.
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