Hegele (Hölzel)*
Christoph Thomas Hegele, a braid weaver (Bortenwirker), and his wife Sibilla arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Hölzel on 5 August 1767. Sibilla died there on 10 October 1767. Christoph Thomas Hegele is recorded in Hölzel on the 1767 census in Household No. 57.