Johann Melchior Kempel, son of Conrad Kempel, was baptized on 4 August 1713 in Mauswinkel. He married on 21 February 1741 to Anna Margaretha Preis, the widow of Christophel Eÿßenhuth. [See Eisenhuth Family].
Johann Melchior & Anna Margaretha had at least three children, each born in Mauswinkel: (1) Johann Philipp, born 5 April 1743, baptized 7 April 1743; (2) Johann Conrad, born 30 April 1745, baptized 2 May 1745; and (3) Anna Elisabetha, born 21 November 1747, baptized 29 November 1747.
Anna Margareatha Kempel née Preis died 25 April 1754. Johann Melchior Kempel remarried in April 1755 to Anna Catharina Bauscher, daughter of Johannes & Anna Elisabetha Bauscher. She had been baptized 10 May 1713 in Mauswinkel.
Melchior Kempel, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann [Philipp], age 23; Konrad, age 22; Anna, age 19) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 June 1766 aboard a boat named Святая Екатерина (Saint Catherine) under the command of Midshipman Alexander Trusov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Moor on 18 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Households No. 25 & 26.
Konrad Kempel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Moor in Household No. Mo38.
David Kempel from Moor and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Wiesenmüller.
The Facius List records that Melchior Kempel (age 53) came from the German village of Mauswinkel. The Oranienbaum passenger and the 1767 census record that Melchior Kempel came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1857 Wiesenmüller Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 182.
- List of those recruited by Johann Facius from 13 November 1765 to 18 February 1766.
- 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): Mo38.
- Parish register of Kirchbracht which includes Mauswinkel.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 162.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1201.
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