Heinrich Keil, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Heinrich Keil is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Straub on 12 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 45.
Philipp Keil and his sons (Georg Philipp, age 7; Philipp Peter, age 1) are recorded on the 1811 census of Straub in Household No. 9 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Neu-Straub [year not recorded].
Philipp Keil and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Straub in Households No. 6 & 20. Georg Keil and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Straub in Household No. 31.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Keil came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Heinrich Keil came from the German village of Brandau in the Darmstadt region.
- 1811 Straub Census (Household No. 9).
- 1834 Neu-Straub Census (Households No. 6, 20, 31).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 286.
- 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): Sr09, Sr15, Sr30.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 240.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2084.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1712.
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