Johann[es] Rettiger, a farmer, his wife Eva, and children (Eva, age 14; Magdalena, age 12; Elisabeth, age 10; Johann [sic], age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Johannes Rettiger, his wife Margretha [sic], and children (Eva Maria, age 14; Magdalena, age 12; Elisabeth, age 10¼; Joseph, age 8) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johannes Rettiger died and widow Margaretha remarried to Nikolaus Bilzack. Nikolaus Bilzack, his wife Margaretha [widow Rettiger], and her children (Maria Rettig[er], age 15; Maria Elisabeth Rettig[er], age 13; Maria Elisabeth [again] Rettig[er], age 11; Joseph Rettig[er], age 9) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 19.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann[es] Rettiger came from the German region of Mainz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Rettiger family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 165.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4590.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5861-5866.
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