Konrad Bell (age 18), recorded as a servant of Ludwig Hoff, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
The Appendix to the 1775 Census of Schilling (No. 13) records that Konrad Bell is farming "with the aid of relatives." The 1775 census of Schilling furthur records that Konrad Bell was assigned to the colony as a laborer and that the community testifies that he came alone to Russia and did not receive loans for farming.
The 1798 census of Kukkus records Konrad Bell in Household No. Kk07.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Bell came from the German region of Stolberg.
- 1775 Schilling Census Appendix (No. 13).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 233.
- Kukkus Website (www.kukkus.com) - Origins
- 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): Kk07.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1657.
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Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list (#1657) recording the arrival in Russia of Ludwig Ruppel and his servant Konrad Bell.
Source: Brent Mai.