Jakob Rein, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Eva Maria, and servant Johann Joachim [surname not recorded] (age 15) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 June 1766 aboard the Russian boat named Святой Павел (Saint Paul) under the command of Midshipman Fyodor Sornev.
Jakob settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Karaman on 10 June 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 21 along with his new wife Louisa and her daughter Anna Margaretha (age 10) [surname not recorded].
In 1795, Konrad Rein moved from Stahl am Karaman to Reinwald.
The 1767 census records that Jakob Rein came from the German village of Manau in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- 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): Rw34, Sk19, Mv2813.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 196.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2227.
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