Reith (Zürich)
Heinrich Reith, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Andreas, age 9; Anna, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the ship Der Jung Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Heinrich Reith, a farmer, his [new] wife Maria, and children (Andreas, age 11; Anna, age 6) are recorded in Household No. 21 on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census of the Volga Germans along with his stepsons: Jakob Bolwin, age 20 & Philipp Bolwin, age 14.
Son Andreas Reith is recorded on the 1798 census in Zürich in Household No. Zr32.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Reith came from the German village of Blankenbach.
- 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): Zr32.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 353.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #7216.
Brent Mai
Andreas Raith