Reisig
The Johann Georg Reisig, a day laborer (Tagelöhner), his wife Maria Barbara, and children (Eva, age 16; Johann Jakob, age 11; Georg Bernhard, age 9; Daniel, age 5) arrived in the city of Schleswig, Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) on 20 May 1761. He swore oath to King Friedrich of Denmark on 24 July 1761 and on 8 August 1761 settled in the Danish colony of Königsberge.
The parish register in Hohn (Denmark) records that Johann Georg Reisig died on 1 March 1763.
His widow Barbara remarried on 13 February 1764 to Christian Stapel. [See Stapel Family.]
The combined Stapel / Reisig family immigrated to Russia.
Christian Stabel, a farmer, his wife Anna Barbara, children (Georg Friedrich, age 3; Maria Franziska, age ½), and [step-children] (Johann Jakob [Reisig], age 17; Georg Bernhard [Reisig], age 15; Daniel [Reisig], age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Shcherbakovka in Household No. 30. They had arrived in Shcherbakovka on 15 June 1765.
Eva Maria Reisig, another daughter of Johann Georg Reisig, settled in Grimm with her husband Ludwig Kaiser and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. Gm076.
Jakob Reisig and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Shcherbakovka in Household No. Sv45.
Johann Peter Reisig, son of the deceased Bernhard Reisig, is recorded on the 1798 census of Shcherbakovka in Household No. Sv55 along with a note that he was working the Sarepta.
The death Johann Peter Reisig in 1818 is recorded on the 1834 census of Franzosen in Household No. 2.
Friedrich Reisig from Shcherbakovka is recorded on the 1834 census of Dobrinka in Household No. 145.
Eichhorns record that Johann Georg Reisig may have been from Gemmingen, which is north of what is historically considered to be Swabia.
- 1834 Dobrinka Census (Household No. 145).
- 1834 Franzosen Census (Household No. 2).
- 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: Steinmeier, 2012): B-1294.
- 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): Gm076, Sv45, Sv46, Sv55.
Brent Mai
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