Widower Konrad Feil [sic], a carpenter (Zimmermann), and daughters (Anna Margaretha, age 23; Anna Katharina, age 21) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Стрельна (Strelna - a village near St. Petersburg) under the command of Midshipman Login Sornev along with Johann Feil [sic], a single hammer-maker (Hammerschmied) who is presumed to be Konrad's son.
Johannes Peil (age 20), a carpenter (Zimmermann), his wife Anna Katharina (age 21), and his sister Anna Katharina (age 21) are recorded on the 1767 census of Holstein in Household No. 44. They had arrived in Holstein on 7 July 1767.
The widow and children of Johannes Peil are recorded on the 1798 census of Holstein in Household No. Ho07.
Johann Adam and Johannes Peil, sons of Johannes Peil, and their families are recorded on the 1834 census of Holstein in Households No. 5 & 72.
Johann Karl Peil, son of Johannes Peil, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Dobrinka in Household No. 17.
Friedrich Peil from Holstein and his brother Adam are recorded on the 1850 census of Galka in Household No. 215 along with a note that they had arrived from Holstein in Galka in 1835.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Peil was a carpenter (Zimmermann) from the German village of Bietlingen.
- 1834 Dobrinka Census (Household No. 17).
- 1834 Holstein Census (Households No. 5, 72).
- 1850 Galka Census (Household No. 215).
- 1850 Holstein Census (Households No. 7, 8, 111).
- 1857 Galka Census (Household No. 214).
- 1857 Holstein Census (Households No. 7, 8).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 619.
- 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): Ho07.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 136.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4960, 4961.
Brent Mai