Spelling Variations
Himmel (Ober-Monjou)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Franz Himmel, a farmer, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou on 23 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 13.
The 1767 census records that Franz Himmel came from the German village of Rastatt.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 292.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7249.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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