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Merkel (Unknown-2)*

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Mörckel (Unknown-2)*
Меркель (Unknown-2)*
Merkel (Unknown-2)*
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Adam Morckel & Catharina Hicks were married on 2 June 1766 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.

Adam Mörckel, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson.

Adam Mörckel, his wife Catrina, and daughter Anna Maria (born in route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

They are recorded on the list of those being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

They have not been located in a Volga German colony.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Merkel family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources

- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga: 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): #5260-5261.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #72.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3988.}
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6229-6231.

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