Johann Zohl, a farmer, his wife, and children (Eva, age 15; Johann, age 14; Elisabeth, age 5¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Hussenbach in 1767. The 1798 census of Hussenbach records the widow and daughter of deceased son Heinrich Zohl in Household No. Hs100.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Zohl came from the German region of Isenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Zohl family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 803.
- 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): Hs100.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6434.
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