Wilhelm Reis, a farmer, and his wife Maria Margaretha immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein), arriving in Fridericia on 19 January 1761. They were last recorded in the Danish colonies on 26 April 1763.
Wilhelm Reis (age 45), a farmer, his [new] wife Elisabeth [née Frank] (age 31), and children (Johann Hartmann, age 9; Maria, age 8 [not 18]; Eva Elisabeth, age 3; Margaretha Elisabeth, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Shcherbakovka in Household No. 7. They had arrived in Shcherbakovka on 15 June 1765.
Wilhelm Reis and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Shcherbakovka in Household No. Sv05.
Eva Speldecker née Reis and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Shcherbakovka in Household No. Sv26.
Katharina Stricker née Reis and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Shcherbakovka in Household No. Sv52.
The Eichhorns record that Wilhelm Reis came from the German village of Mannheim. The 1767 census records that Wilhelm Reis came from the German village of Petershain.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-1325.
- 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): Sv05, Sv26, Sv52.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 247.
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