Riehl (Stephan)
The parish register of Stumpertenrod records that Johann Georg Rühl, son of Johannes Rühl of Helpershain, was baptized on 8 January 1740.
Johann Georg Rühl, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Lieutenant Gawril Poduzki.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Stephan on 24 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 21 along with his new wife Elisabeth.
The widow and children of Georg Riehl are recorded on the 1798 census of Stephan in Household No. Sp08.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Georg Rühl came from the German region of Darmstadt while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Helpershain.
- 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): Sp08.
- Parish register of Stumpertenrod (including Helpershain).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 225.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5586.
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