Johann Georg Hunkel [sic], his wife Gertrude, children (Adam, age 6; Adam [again], age 2½), and a single woman Magdalena [surname not recorded] (age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder.
George [sic] Kunkel, his wife Gerdruta [sic], son Adam (age 2½), and maid Magdalena [surname recorded as Kunkel] are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Adam died in route.
Johann Georg Kunkel, a farmer, and his wife Gertrude are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census in Household No. 120.
The children of the deceased Georg Kunkel are recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm49 along with a note that Bernhard Kunkel is living in Luzern.
Bernhard Kunkel from Wittmann and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Luzern in Household No. 38.
The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Hunkel [sic] came from the German region of Dienheim.
- 1834 Luzern Census (Household No. 38).
- 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): Wm49.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 373.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6903.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4830-4833.
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