Andreas Kimbal [sic], a weaver, his Margaretha, and children (Elisabeth, age 16¼; Johann David, age 15; Lanetta, age 3; Louisa, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.
Andreas Guimbald [sic], his wife Margretha, and children (Maria Elisabeth, age 14; David, age 12) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Andreas Gimbald, a silk weaver (Seidenweber), his wife Margaretha, and children (Elisabeth, age 18; Ludwig David, age 15) are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 66. They had settled there on 5 September 1767.
In documents of the Kontora (Office of Immigrant Oversight) dated 14 November 1777, David Fuchs is identified as the stepson of Andreas Gimbald - so the Johann David/Ludwig David who is recorded as a son of Andreas is actually his step-son.
The 1767 census records that Andreas Gimbald came from the village of Sanflet [?] near Uwern [?]. Researcher Oxana Diedenko suggests that this may be the French town of Saint-Floret in the Auvergne (today Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 172.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 229.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #1122.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7791-7794.
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