Konrad Reitz, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Johann, age 14; Katharina, age 9; Elisabeth, age 5)arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a barque named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kukkus on 26 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 25.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Reitz was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a hunter (Jäger).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Reitz came from German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Konrad Reitz came from the German village of Alsbach in the Kurpfalz.
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Brent Mai