Widow Maria Sendelbach and her sons (Johann Adam [age not recorded]; Martin, age 14½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Elisabeth Catharina under the command of Skipper Heinrich Ludwig Gottknecht.
Maria Sendelbach, widow of an unnamed farmer, and son Georg Adam [sic] [age not recorded] are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 113. They had arrived in Brabander on 26 June 1767.
Johannes Adam Sendelbach, a farmer, and his wife Sabina are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 96.
The death of Adam Sendelbach in 1805 is recorded on the 1811 census of Dehler in Household No. 5.
Adam Sendelbach from Brabander is recorded on the 1798 census of Dehler in Household No. Dl05.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that this Sendelbach family came from the German region of Bayreuth. The 1767 census records that Maria Sendelbach came from the German village of Theisau [Tressau] in Bayern (Bavaria). The 1767 census records that Johannes Adam Sendelbach came from the German region of Berlin [sic].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Sendelbach family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Dehler Census (Household No. 5).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 401.
- 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): Dl05.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 235, 238.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3085, #3086.
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