Heinrich Reeb

The leading researcher on the Reeb/Rape/Rappe family is John V. Reeb. He is credited with identifying much of the family roots, and continues to research all Reeb families, both ancestry and descendants. He is the author of the excellent book: "Reeb Roots: In Europe and America", compiled by John V. Reeb, edited by Nell Taylor Norvell, Gateway Press Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1994. John V. Reeb can be contacted (and would like to be contacted by Reeb descendants and researchers) at: John V. Reeb email: jvreeb@pacbell.net If you use data from this website that comes from that source, please credit him in your own research or on your own website. ------------------------ Some Sources: 1. In May 1993, Nellie (Fisher) Karr sent me a 39 page descendancy listing for Heinrich Reeb. In her letter, she named two heavily used sources: ["The Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois"], and ["The Rape Family of Illinois"], both found through the Mormon Church. She also cited ["The Cemeteries of Cotton Hill Township"] and ["Marriage Records from Sangamon County, Illinois"]. The software she used to make the descendancy listing showed only a name, birth year and death year for each individual. It appears that modifiers like "before" or "about" might have also been omitted from the printout. I attempted to correspond with her further in 1993, but didn't hear back from her. (I have since rented the History of Sangamon County and included all info from there). 2. Most (if not all) of the original research on the Europe side has apparently been done by John V. Reeb, 927-B Taraval Street, San Francisco, CA 94116 (415) 665-0488. He sent me a copy of his book, ["Reeb Roots: In Europe and America", 1995] in March 1996. The data from that book has not yet been entered into this database. 3. Further sources for individuals are indicated in the individual notes for descendants. Some early records in the 1500s pertaining to the name Reeb in the Alsace region are discussed in [Reed & Norvell, "Reeb Roots in Europe and America", Introduction]. The marriage record of Johann Nicolaus Reeb, dated 6 Dec 1642 in the church at Bockenheim (now Sarre-Union) names the groom as "Niclass Reeb, son of Heinrich Reeb deceased at Castel" (Keskastel) [ibid, p.13]. This might or might not be the same "Hans' Reeb's children, Lorentz, Georg, and Christmann", that appear in a 1620 tax list for towns of Lorentzen, Herbitzheim and saar-Bockenheim, along with a "Peter Reeb" [ibid, p.7]. It appears likely that a Heinrich Reeb of Kescastle was a brother to Niclaus Reeb (and thus a son of this Heinrich Reeb). This Heinrich Reeb and his wife Margaretha appear as a witnesses for children of Niclaus (and vise versa) several times.