The parish register of the Cathedral in Mainz records the baptisms of the following children born to Johannes & Elisabetha Fell of Bodenheim: (1) Anna Maria, baptized 4 March 1749; (2) Maria Agnes, baptized 6 April 1751; (3) Elisabetha, baptized 23 September 1753; and (4) Johannes Adam, baptized 23 February 1756.
Johann Fell, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Anna, age 20; Agnesia, age 18; Elisabeth, age 12; Johann [Adam], age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the hooker Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.
The orphaned children of Johann & Elisabeth Fell are recorded on the 1767 census of Keller. Johann Adam (age 12) is recorded there in Household No. 27 along with the Johannes Schipper Family. Agnesia (age 18) is living in Household No. 28 along with the Adam Grollmann family who had arrived in Oranienbaum aboard the same ship with them. Elisabeth (age 12) is living in Household No. 32 along with the Johannes Kloster family who had also arrived in Oranienbaum aboard the same ship with them. [See Schipper, Grollmann, and Kloster Families.]
Johann Adam Fell moved from Neu-Kolonie to Rothammel.
In 1798, he is recorded in Household No. Lg20 in the colony of Leichtling.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Fell came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census does not record from where the Fell orphans came.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 147.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Lg20, Mv1883.
- Parish register of the Cathedral of Mainz.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 347.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #895.
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