Nikolaus Kehl [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Elisabeth, age 22; Nikolaus, age 19; Martin, age 15¼; Margaretha, age 13; Johann, age ¾) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 27 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Слон (Slon - Elephant in Russian) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Nikolaus Keil (age 45), a farmer, his wife Anna Katharina Bach (age 36), and children (Martin, age 16; Anna Margaretha, age 15) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leichtling in Household No. 4. They had arrived in Leichtling on 14 June 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Kehl [sic] came from the German region of the Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Keil came from the German village of Alzey.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Keil family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 106.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 52.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #545.
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