Johannes Riechelhof, son of Paul & Anna Maria Richelhof from Brachthausen, married on 11 January 1718 in St. Kasimir Catholic Church in Seelenberg to Anna Maria Riegel, daughter of Johann Gerhard & Anna Maria Riegel. [The bride has promised to convert to Catholicism and consents to the marriage.]
The births of the following children born to Johannes Riechelhof & Anna Maria Riegel in Schmitten are recorded in the parish register of St. Kasimir Catholic Church in Seelenberg: (1) Johannes Philipp, born 9 January 1720, died 8 February 1722; (2) Philipp Andreas, born 23 December 1722; (3) Anna Johanna, born 19 March 1725; (4) Joseph, born 22 February 1728; and (5) Heinrich Sebastian, born 28 May 1746.
The father, Johannes Riechelhof, died 5 December 1756 in Schmitten.
Philipp Riegelhof (born 9 January 1720) married Anna Justina [maiden name unknown]. The births of the following children born in Schmitten to Philipp & Anna Justina Riegelhof are recorded in the parish register of St. Kasimir Catholic Church in Seelenberg: (1) Johannes Sebastian, born 11 February 1748, died 26 November 1751; (2) Johannes Valentin, born in June 1750; (3) Nikolaus, born 27 March 1753; (4) Elisabetha Margaretha, born 6 February 1757; and (5) Bartolomeus, born 24 May 1760.
Anna Justina Riegelhof died 11 June 1762. Widower Philipp Riegelhof remarried on 26 November 1762 to Magdalena Weber. They had one additional child: Maria Johanna, born in January 1764.
Philipp Riegelhoff, a farmer, his wife Magdalena, and children (Valentin, age 17¼; Johann, age 15; Elisabeth, age 10¼; Anton, age 8; Bartholomeus, age 6; Maria, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the 2-masted merchant ship named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.
Philipp Riegelhoff died after arrival in Russia. His widow, Magdalena, remarried to Heinrich Gorgie who is recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 41. [See Gorgie Family.] The 1767 census records the Riegelhoff children in Households No. 2, 16, and 41.
Following the destruction of Keller, surviving members of the family resettled to the colony of Neu-Kolonie.
The 1767 census records that Philipp Riegelhoff came from the German region of Bassenheim.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 144.
- 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): Nk31.
- Parish register of St. Kasimir Catholic Church in Seelenberg.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 342, 345, 350.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #873.
Brent Mai