Riding*

Jakob Riding, a carpenter, his wife Anna, and children (Anna, age 17½; Leopold, age 5; Maria, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Maria Sophia under the command of Skipper Johann Bauert.

Jacob Riding and his stepdaughter Helena [surname not recorded] (age 20) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Widower Jakob Riding settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Tarlyk on 5 September 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 70 along with a note that his wife had died in route from St. Petersburg to Saratov as part of the group led by Lieutenant Riessmann.

A note on the 1767 census also records that his stepdaughter (Helena [surname not recorded], age 20) settled in Stahl am Tarlyk with him, but that she relocated to the colony of Laub in 1768.

The 1767 census records that Jakob Riding came from the German village of Moneksen in the Mecklenburg region.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.