Reis (Schilling)
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Reis (Schilling)
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Discussion & Documentation:
Georg Michael Reisz [sic] and Barbara Harres were married on 24 July 1764 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Johann Michael Reis, his wife Anna Barbara, and their sons (Georg Peter, age 7½; Georg Friedrich, age 3; Johann Heinrich, age ¼) are recorded on the 1775 census of Schilling in Household No. 51.
Sources:
- 1775 Census of Schilling (No. 51).
- 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): Sg051, Sg053.
- 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): #2.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai