Reis (Philippsfeld)

Martin Reis and his family 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.

Joh. Martin Reis, his wife Catharina, and children (Cunigunda, age 12; Conrad, age 8; Heinrich, age 3) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Catharina and son Heinrich died en route.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Philippsfeld on 3 August 1767.  They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 12.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Martin Reis was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a teacher (Lehrer).

The 1767 census records that Martin Reis came from the German village of Bernburg.