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Heindel
Гейндель
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Konrad Handel [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Kardula, age 20; Walpurgia, age 16; Stephan, age 13; Thomas, age 11; Martin, age 8½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.

Conrad Handel [sic], his wife Anna Maria, and children (Cordula, age 20; Walpurga, age 16; Stephan, age 13; Thomas, age 11; Martin, age 8) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Widower Konrad Heindel, a farmer, and his children ([a] Kartolia, age 20; [b] Walpurgia, age 15; [c] Stephan, age 14; [d] Martin, age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 80. They had settled there on 24 August 1767.

[a] Kartolia [Cordilia] Heindel is recorded as the mother of the illegitimate Michael Werwitzke. [See Werwitzke Family.]

[b] Walpurga Schreiber née Heindel from Seelmann and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Brabander in Household No. Bn32.

[c] Stephan Heindel and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Seelmann in Household No. 58 along with a note that he had been held captive by the Kyrgyz-Kaisaks and had returned to Seelmann in 1798.

Stephan Heindel and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Seelmann in Household No. 77.

[d] Martin Heindel from Seelmann is recorded on the 1798 census of Brabander in Household No. Bn58.

Martin Heindel and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Brabander in Household No. 58.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Handel [sic] came from the German region of Böhmen (Bohemia). The 1767 census records that Konrad Heindel came from the German village of Steinsdorf in the Bamberg region.

Sources

- 1811 Brabander Census (Household No. 58).
- 1811 Seelmann Census (Household No. 58).
- 1834 Seelmann Census (Household No. 77).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 750.
- 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): Bn32, Bn58.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 163.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5996.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6727-6733.

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Brent Mai

Volga Colonies