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Rehm (Philippsfeld)

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Rehm (Philippsfeld)
Ремъ (Philippsfeld)
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Johannes Rehm, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Katharina, age 3; Johann, age ¾) 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.

Joh. Georg Röhn, his wife Anna Maria, and son Joh. Heinrich (age 1) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Anna Maria and son Joh. Heinrich died en route.

Johann Georg Rehm, a farmer, and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Philippsfeld on 17 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 17.

Their son Johann Heinrich Rehm moved to the colony of Meinhard where he is recorded on the 1798 census in Household No. Mn25.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Rehm came from the German region of Hessen. The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Rehm came from the German village of Nenterode bei Wernswig.

Sources

- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 669.
- 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): Mn25.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 407.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5317.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3445-3447.

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