Johann Hinrich Reifenschneider [sic] & Anna Elisabeth Zimmer were married on 4 June 1766 in the Reformed Church in Lübeck. Further research is needed to verify whether this is the same Heinrich Reifschneider that settled in Kutter in 1767.
Johann Heinrich Reifschneider, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and his mother Anna Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Каргополь (Kargopol: a Russian City) under the command of Captain Lieutenant Moses Davydov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 110.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Heinrich Reifschneider came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Refischneider came from the German village of Meerholz in the region of Isenburg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 535.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1192.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 445.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4146 (p. 272).
Brent Mai