The birth of a child born to Johannes & Elisabeth Seibel has been located in the parish register of Weißenbach: Johann Ludwig, born 29 October 1758.
Johann Seibel, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Kaspar, age 19; Anna, age 14; Ludwig, age 8; Margaretha, age 4) arrived from Lübeck in Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
Johannes Seibel, a farmer, his [new] wife Elisabeth, and children (Ludwig, age 9; Margaretha, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 45 along with stepdaughters [surname Martin] (Magdalena, age 14; Anna Katharina, age 12; Margaretha, age 9; Anna, age 5). They had arrived in Stahl am Karaman on 22 June 1767.
The widow of Ludwig Seibel and their children (sons: Johann Georg, age 12; Johann, age 9; Heinrich, age 5) are recorded on the 1798 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. Sk13.
[Johann] Georg Seibel is recorded on the 1811 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 13 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Rosenheim in 1800.
[Johann] Georg Seibel from Stahl [am Karaman] is recorded on the 1811 census of Rosenheim in Household No. 39.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johannes Seibel came from the German region of Dienheim.
- 1811 Rosenheim Census (Household No. 39).
- 1811 Stahl am Karaman Census (Household No. 13).
- 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): 416.
- 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): Sk13.
- Parish Register of Weißenbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 202.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3239.
Brent Mai
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