Two Siegel families arrived in the Volga German colony of Kamenka on 20 June 1767. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Johann[es] Siegel, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johann, age 8; Anna, age 3) 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.
They are recorded on the 1767 census of Kamenka in Household No. 69.
In 1790, widow Christina Siegel and her children moved from Kamenka to Penza.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Siegel came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Eppingen.
(2) Nikolaus Siegel, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 23 June 1766 aboard the Russian boat named Не тронь меня (Don't Touch Me) under the command of Midshipman Emelyan Lozhnikov.
They are recorded on the 1767 census of Kamenka in Household No. 70.
Nikolaus Siegel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kamenka in Household No. Km058.
The death of Nikolaus Siegel is recorded in the parish register of Kamenka in 1803.
Nikolaus Siegel, son of Nikolaus Siegel, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kamenka in Household No. 148.
Johannes Siegel, son of Nikolaus Siegel, from Kamenka and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Josefstal in Household No. 53.
Andreas Siegel, nephew of Nikolaus Siegel, is recorded on the 1834 census of Kamenka in Household No. 148 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Luzern.
Konrad Siegel, nephew of Nikolaus Siegel, is recorded on the 1834 census of Kamenka in Household No. 148 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Sewald.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Siegel came from the German region of the Pfalz. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Eppingen.
- 1834 Kamenka Census (Household No. 148).
- 1857 Josefstal Census (Household No. 53).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29, 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 239, 305.
- 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): Km058, Mv1098.
- Parish register of Kamenka.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 232, 233.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1711, #2240.
Brent Mai