Spelling Variations
Henkel (Dönhof-2)*
Генкель (Dönhof-2)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Johannes Henkel, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha are recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 67.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Henkel came from the German region of Riedesel.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Henkel family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 359.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai