Hans Georg Bäuchel, son of Hanss Andreas Bäuchel & Anna Maria Schmierer, was born 9 April 1725 in Wiernsheim. He married on 4 April 1752 to Maria Juditha Schochen, daughter of Michael Schochen of Werse [today in Nordrhein-Westfalen].
The baptisms of children born to Hans Georg Bäuchel & Maria Juditha Schochen are recorded in the parish register of Wiernsheim: (1) Maria Catharina, born 23 October 1752, baptized 24 October 1752; (2) Johann Georg, born 22 June 1754, baptized 23 June 1754; and (3) Regina, born & baptized 20 December 1758, died 8 April 1761.
Hans Georg Beuchle [sic] a daylaborer (Tagelöhner) and linen weaver (Leinweber) from the area of Maulbronn in Württemberg, his wife Juditha, and children (Catharina, age 8; Georg, age 6) arrived in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein (Denmark) on 1 August 1761 and swore allegiance to the King of Denmark on 3 August 1761. They were dismissed from the Danish colonies on 6 June 1763.
They joined the migration to Russia. Georg Beichel, a farmer, his wife Edith [sic], and son Georg (age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Galka in Household No. 17. They had settled in Galka on 1 July 1765.
Son Johann Georg Beichel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Galka in Household No. Gk16.
Daughter Maria Katharina Beichel from Galka [who has not been located on the 1767 census] is recorded on the 1798 census of Holstein in Household No. Ho24 as the wife of Johann Jakob Jauck.
The 1767 census records that Georg Beichel came from the German village of Werse.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-112.
- 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): Gk16, Ho24.
- Parish register of Wiernsheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 23.
Brent Mai
Albert Bernhardt