Philipp Rehberger, son of Johannes Jacob Rehberger & Maria Barbara Haas, was baptized in St. Martin's Church in Orb on 13 August 1741. He married there on 30 July 1764 to Margaretha Winter.
Philipp Reberg [sic], a farmer, and his new wife Katharina [Ihl] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Philip Reberg [sic] and his wife Catharina are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Zug. They are recorded in 1767 on a list of Beauregard recruits in Household No. 76.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Reberger came from the German region of Mainz while the Beauregard list records that he came from the German village of Orb.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 681.
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- 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): Zg24.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 364.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5412.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3597-3598.
Brent Mai