The baptisms of the following children born to Balthasar & Maria Margaretha Happel in Schmerlenbach have been located in the parish register of St. Michael's Catholic Church in Hösbach: (1) Maria Elisabetha, baptized 10 February 1749; (2) Anna Maria, baptized 20 February 1751; (3) Johannes Jakob, baptized 4 August 1754; (4) Maria Anna, baptized 14 May 1756; and (5) Maria Eva, baptized 5 August 1759.
Balthasar Happel, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and children (Maria, age 20; Anna, age 16¼; Jakob, age 14; Marianna, age 12; Eva, age 10¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Concordia under the command of Skipper Jakob Bauert.
The surviving children (Anna Maria, age 17; Jakob, age 14; Maria Eva, age 12) settled in the Volga German colony of Pfeifer on 15 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 32 along with the Anton Sommer family. [See Sommer Family.] The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Happel and Sommer families, but Anton Sommer's new wife Elisabeth is believed to be the oldest daughter of Balthasar Happel.
Jakob Happel from Pfeifer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Franzosen in Household No. Fz38. [Some translations have this surname mis-translated as Göbel on this census.]
Jakob Happel and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Franzosen in Household No. 16 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Husaren. Jakob Happel from Franzosen and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Husaren in Household No. 66.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Balthasar Happel came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that the children came from the German village of Aschaffenburg (which at the time was part of the Bishopric of Mainz).
- 1834 Franzosen Census (Household No. 16).
- 1834 Husaren Census (Household No. 66).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 350.
- 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): Fz38.
- Parish register of St. Michael's Catholic Church in Hösbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 385.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2634.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the parish register of St. Michael's Catholic Church in Hösbach recording the baptism of Maria Elisabetha Happel on 10 February 1749.
Source: Anonymous2.