Castelli*

Brothers Alexander [Castelli] (age 19) & Christoph [Castelli] (age 16) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax along with their stepfather Franz Waas and his family.

Johann Franz Wase [Waas], his wife Anna Catharina, and children (Alexander [Castelli], age 19; Christoph [Castelli], age 16; Heinrich, age 11; Carolus, age 9; Eva, age 6) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. [The surname of the Castelli brothers is recorded as Kastel (Кастель) on the transport list, but notes by the author point to other documents that record their surname as Castelli.]

Franz Wens [sic], a stocking maker (Strumpfwirker), his wife Katharina, children (Heinrich, age 11; Karl, age 7; Eva, age 5), and stepsons [surname Castelli] (Alexander, age 22; Christoph, age 17) are recorded on the list of Beauregard recruits that is attached to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies in Household No. 109. The Waas family settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou.

In 1781, Christoph Kastel [Castelli] moved from Ober-Monjou to Luzern.

The widow and children of Alexander Castelli are recorded on the 1798 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. Om04.

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