Johann Caspar Appel from Heiligenkreutz in the district of Thüngen married on 14 April 1766 in St. Mary's Lutheran Church in Büdingen to Catharina Eliesabeth Keil, daughter of the deceased Pfeiffer Keil from Büdingen.
Kaspar Appel, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Karaman where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 48.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Kaspar Appel came from the German district of Dienheim. Victor3 via the Forum of Wolgadeutsche net records that Caspar (Christian) Appel came from the German village of Heiligkreutz.
- 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): 418.
- 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): Sk05.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #529.
- Parish register of Heiligkreutz.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 203.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3253.
Brent Mai
Victor3 via the Forum of Wolgadeutsche.net