Steinpreis (Reinwald)

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Steinpreis (Reinwald)
Штейнпрейсъ (Reinwald)
Steinepreis
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Philipp Heinrich Steinpreis, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Peter, age 7; Johannes, age 5; Katharina, age 1½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Reinwald in Household No. 39. They had settled in Reinwald on 14 July 1766.

Peter Steinpreis and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Reinwald in Household No. Rw05.

Johannes Steinpreis and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Reinwald in Household No. Rw36.

Anna Katharina Steinpreis from Reinwald, her husband August Jersch, and their family are recorded on the 1798 census of Paulskaya in Household No. Pl35.

Gottfried Steinpreis[, son of Johannes Steinpreis of Reinwald,] and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Nieder-Monjou along with a note that he had arrived in Nieder-Monjou in 1816.

The 1767 census records that Philipp Heinrich Steinpreis came from the German village of Meisenheim in the Zweibrücken region.

Sources: 

- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-1639.
- 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): Kn12, Pl35, Rw05, Rw36.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 40.

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