Jacob Bandel (age 32), a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Apolonia Brotz (age 48), and stepchildren (Heinrich Schechtel, age 16; Sophia Schechtel, age 13; Barbara Schechtel, age 9; Peter Schechtel, age 6; Wilhelm Schechtel, age 6) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms.
Jakob Bändel, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Appolonia, and stepchildren [whose father was the deceased Anton Schechtel] (Heinrich, age 19; Sophia, age 16; Barbara, age 12; Peter, age 8; Wilhelm, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schuck in Household No. 6. They had arrived in Schuck on 18 June 1766.
The 1765 Worms list records that Jacob Bandel came from the German village of Badenheim. The 1767 census records that Jakob Bändel came from the German region of Bieswang.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 129 (#401-407).
- 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): Su26.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 112.
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