Widower Johann Kimbel, a farmer, and his son Johann (age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 17 July 1766 aboard a pink named Lev (Lion) under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.
Orphan Johann Friedrich Knippel [sic] (age 15) is recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 83 along with the Nikolaus Kenzler family. The 1775 census does not record a relationship between the Knippel and Kenzler families.
Friedrich Kimbel (born about 1762) and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Grimm in Household No. 91. His son Johann Christoph Kimbel and his family are recorded there in Household No. 230.
Johann Georg & Konrad Kimbel, sons of Friedrich Kimbel, and their families are recorded on the 1857 census of Grimm in Household No. 99 along with a note that Johann Georg and his family relocated to the daughter colony of Erlenbach in 1852.
The death of Johann Georg Kimbel in 1856 is recorded on the 1857 census of Erlenbach in Household No. 49.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Kimbel came from the German village of Schlitz.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 83).
- 1834 Grimm Census (Households No. 91, 230).
- 1850 Grimm Census (Households No. 98).
- 1857 Erlenbach Census (Household No. 49).
- 1857 Grimm Census (Households No. 99).
- 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): 324.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2401.
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