Widow Elisabeth Gammel and her sons (Johann [Kaspar], age 18; Wilhelm, age 10¼; Johann [Christoph], age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a barque named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
Antonia Gammel, widow of an unnamed farmer, and her sons (Wilhelm, age 12; Christoph, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Bangert in Household No. 29.
Christoph Gammel is recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr033.
Kaspar Gammel, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on the 1767 census of Bangert in Household No. 13.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Elisabeth Gammel came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that this Gammel family came from the German village of Cleeberg in the Wetterau area of the Darmstadt region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 437.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Bg10, Bg12, Wr033.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 108, 112.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3405.
Brent Mai