Johann Diehl, a farmer, his wife Eva, and children (Elisabeth, age 18; Johann, age 16¼; Christoph, age 12; Georg, age 9) 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.
Widow Katharina Diehl, a farmer's wife, and her sons (Johann Konrad, age 17; Johann Christoph, age 15; Johann Georg, age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Reinwald in Household No. 60. They had arrived in Reinwald on 24 June 1767.
In 1787, Christoph Diehl moved from Reinwald to Schwed.
Christoph Diehl from Reinwald and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schwed in Household No. Sw13.
Friedrich Diehl and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Schwed in Household No. 15.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Diehl came from the German region of Riedesel. The 1767 census records that Katharina Diehl came from the German village of Rippel in the Lauterbach region.
- 1834 Schwed Census (Household No. 15).
- 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.
- 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): Sw13, Mv2398.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 46.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1659.
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