Reis (Bauer)
Elias Reusch [sic] (age 43), a vintner (Weingärtner), his wife Eva Maria Knobloch, and children (Johanna Christian, age 15; Jacob, age 13; Maria Louisa, age 3½; Hanß Heinrich, age ½) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 22 September 1765.
Elias [erroneously Imes by some translators] Reis, a farmer, his wife Eva Maria [Knobloch], and children (Maria Louisa, age 6; Daniel, age 9-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Bauer in Household No. 53. They had settled there on 1 March 1767.
Daniel Reis and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br61.
The 1765 Worms list records that Elias Reusch [sic] came from the German village of Mettenheim. The 1767 census records that Imes Reis came from the German village of Wittenberg in the Kurpfalz region.
- 1834 Bauer Census (Households No. 14, 134, 143).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 126 (#323-329).
- 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): Br61.
- 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): #1248.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 129.
Brent Mai