Jakob Diehl, a master papermaker (Papiermachermeister), his wife Anna, and daughters (Elisabeth [Louisa?], age 5; Maria, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Jacob Teil [sic], his wife Anna, and daughters (Elisabeth, age 6; Maria, age 3) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 54.
In 1796, Jakob Diehl and his family moved from Nieder-Monjou to Zürich.
The 1767 census records that Jakob Diehl came from the German village of Ukkel [perhaps Unkel?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
[Some translations erroneously record this surname as Tahl.]
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Brent Mai