The parish register of Dalheim records that Fraciscus Thill married [perhaps his second wife?] on 29 April 1766 to Elisabeth Welter from Dalheim.
His new wife evidently didn't survive the journey to Russia, because Franz Diehl, a single wheelwright (Wagenbauer), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Der Jäger under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 15 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 99 along with his new bride, Katharina.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Franz Diehl came from Luxembourg while the 1767 census records that he was French from the village of Dalheim [Luxembourg].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Diehl family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Parish register of Dalheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 431.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2181.
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