Johann Ludwig Bandel, his wife Dorothea, and daughter Christina (age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Joh. Ludw. Bandell, his wife Dorothea, and daughter Christina (age 8) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father Johann Ludwig died in route.
It is believed that the widow Dorothea Bandel remarried to Johannes Luwieß with whom the Bandels had been traveling, but that she also died either during the journey or shortly after arrival in the Volga German colonies.
Johannes Luwieß, a weaver (Weber), his [new] wife Maria, daughter Magdalena (age 9-months), and [step-daughter] Christina [Bandel] (age 8) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 66 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Basel in 1768.
The Oranienbaum passenger list does not record from where Johann Ludwig Bandel came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Bandel 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): 831.
- Oranienbaum Passenger List #6664 (not included in the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Pleve).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 210.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3044-3046.
Brent Mai
Waldemar Kurt
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Johann Ludwig Bandel and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.