Johann Andreas Wenzel, his wife Maria, and daughter Katharina (age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Johannes Wenzel, a farmer, and his wife Maria are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 55.
In 1792, Christian Wenzel, presumed son of Johannes Wenzel, moved from Meinhard to Schaffhausen.
Christian Wenzel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. Sh08.
The descendants of Christian Wenzel are recorded on the 1834 census of Schaffhausen in Households No. 23, 25, 39, & 57.
Jakob Wenzel and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Meinhard in Household No. Mn10.
Jakob Wenzel is recorded on the 1834 census of Meinhard in Household No. 38.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Wenzel came from the German village of Nordhausen.
- 1834 Meinhard Census (Household No. 38).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 864.
- 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): Mn10, Sh08, Mv1674.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 172.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7023.
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