Franz Kaul, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kamenka on 20 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 94.
Katharina, widow of the deceased Franz Kaul, and their son Michael Kaul (age 13) are recorded on the 1798 census of Kamenka in Household No. Km017.
Michael Kaul and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kamenka in Household No. 67.
The 1767 census records that Franz Kaul came from the region of Büdingen.
- 1834 Kamenka Census (Household No. 67).
- 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): Km017, Km021.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 240.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2297.
Brent Mai
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