Appel (Stahl am Karaman)
Johann Caspar Appel from Heiligenkreutz in the district of Thüngen [Thüringen?] & Catharina Eliesabeth Keil, daughter of the deceased Pfeiffer Keil from Büdingen, were married on 14 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Kaspar Appel, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Karaman where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 48.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Kaspar Appel came from the German district of Dienheim.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Sk05.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #529.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 203.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3252.
Brent Mai