Reier (Enders)*
Spelling Variations:
Reiher*
Рейеръ (Enders)*
Reier (Enders)*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Gottlieb Reiher, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Anna Juliana settled in the Volga German colony of Enders on 27 March 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 33.
The 1767 census records that Gottlieb Reiher came from the German village of Breslau in Schlesien (Silecia) and that Anna Juliana came from the Swedish town of Stockholm.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 391.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai