Reisach*

Spelling Variations: 
Reisach*
Рейзахъ*
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Johann Reinsach [sic] & Elisabeth Magdalena Kantehuber were married on 24 June 1765 in Roßlau.

Johann Reisach [sic], a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Mariental on 14 June 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 54.

The 1767 census records that Johann Reisach came from the German village of Kaufbeuren.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources: 

- 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): #866.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 108.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies