Christoph Seibel, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Christoph Seipell [sic] and his wife Margaretha are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Christoph Seibel, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and daughter Dorothea (age 5-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Bettinger in Household No. 23. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christoph Seibel came from the German region of Hessen. The 1767 census records that Christoph Seibel came from the German village of Gerthausen.
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- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Bt23.
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- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5319.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3266-3267.
Brent Mai