Johann Just Beil, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and daughter Anna Elisabeth (age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
Johann Jost Beil is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Just Beil (age 30), a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth Margaretha (age 25) are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 130. They had arrived in Warenburg on 12 May 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Beil came from the German region of Runkel. The 1767 census records that Johann Just Beil came from the German village of Wolfenhausen in the region of Runkel.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Biehl family among the Volga German colonies.
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