Philipp Esel, his wife Katharina, and children (Anna, age 10½; Joseph, age 3¼ [sic]; Anna [again], age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Philipp Esel, his wife Katharina, and children (Joseph, age 18; Anna Barbara, age 10; Anna Catharina, age 3) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that the parents and youngest daughter died en route.
It is not known in which colony the surviving children settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list does not record from where Philipp Esel came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Esel family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 847.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6867 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4790-4794.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Kaspar Esel and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.