Reis (Ernestinendorf)

Johann Caspar Reiß married 8 August 1741 in Queckborn to Anna Maria Schneider, daughter of Conrad Schneider. [Johann Caspar Reiß died in Queckborn on 1 February 1760.]

Entries concerning four children born to Johann Caspar Reiß & Anna Maria Schneider have been located in the parish register of Queckborn: (1) Johannes, baptized 24 June 1742; (2) Sophia, born 1 May 1745, baptized 6 May 1745; (3) Johann, died 8 August 1756 [age: 5y8m8d], buried 10 August 1756; and (4) Johann Ludwig, born 3 August 1754, baptized 4 August 1754.

[The godfather of Johannes Reis was Johann Sprankel who also left for Russia in 1766.]

[A note in the parish register of Queckborn records that on 17 July 1760, Catharina Schenk, the illegitimate daughter of Anna Wider, presented her illegitimate son and named the father as Johannes Reiß, son of Caspar Reiß. The child was baptized on 18 July 1760 and named Peter after his godfather Peter Muth.]

Johann[es] Reis, a farmer, his wife Maria, mother-in-law Anna, and brothers-in-law (Johannes, age 17; Konrad, age 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax. [Kuhlberg records that these two boys were his brothers-in-law, but that is incorrect.]

Johannes Reiss, his wife Anna Maria, sons [should be brothers] (Johannes, age 17½; Conrad, age 12), and mother-in-law Anna [surname not recorded] are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother-in-law Anna died en route.

[The Anna recorded as the mother-in-law of Johannes Reis is more likely to have been his own mother, Anna Maria Schneider, as her death is not recorded in Queckborn.]

The 1767 census of Ernestinendorf records Johannes Reis along with Maria, his wife (age 20), and brothers Johann (age 18) and Conrad (age 15) living in Household No. 14.

Johann (the brother) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Ernestinendorf in Household No. Er08. Brother Konrad and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Näb in Household No. Nb14.

There is a Maria Katharina Ries, perhaps the widow of Johannes Ries, married to Heinrich Walker from Fischer and living in Fischer.