Georg Justus Rempe, son of Philip Conrad Rempe & Anna Elisabeth Tiehl, was baptized on 7 June 1766 in the Lutheran Cathedral (Evangelische Kirche Dom) in Lübeck.
Philipp Rempe, his wife Anna, and children (Andreas, age 20; Philipp, age 15; Heinrich, age 11; Johann, age 3; Just, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Conrad Rempe, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and sons (Andreas [age not recorded], Heinrich, age 10; Joh. Christ., age 7; Georg Justus, age ¾) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Philipp Konrad Rempe, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and sons (Andreas, age 21; Heinrich, age 12; Christian, age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. 69. They had settled in Orlovskaya on 3 August 1767.
In 1776, Andreas Rempe moved from Orlovskaya to Näb.
In 1782, Heinrich Rempe moved from Orlovskaya to Kind.
Widow Elisabeth Rempe along with son Christian and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. Or27.
Johann Heinrich Rempe from Orlovskaya and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kind in Household No. Kd24.
Andreas Rempe from Orlovskaya and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Näb in Household No. Nb01.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Rempe was a stocking maker from the German region of Hessen. The 1767 census records that he was a farmer from the German village of Holzhausen.
- 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): Kd24, Nb01, Or07, Mv2138, Mv2151.
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- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1299.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 326.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4544.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5307-5312.
Brent Mai