Johann Jerelick [sic], a single weaver, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Johann Gruling [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Georg Reiling, a linen weaver (Leineweber), and his wife Maria are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 55.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Jerelick [?] came from the German region of Gerz [?]. The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Reiling came from the German village of Schlitz in the Darmstadt region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Reiling family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 207.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4472.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4325.
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