Klaus Christophel, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of the Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dinkel on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 25.
Anna Maria Weiland née Christophel is recorded on the 1798 census of Dinkel in Household No. Dn45.
Johann Mattias Christoph[el] is recorded on the 1798 census of Dinkel in Household No. Dn51.
The movement tables accompanying the 1798 census of Dinkel record that maidens Dorothea & Louisa Christophel were adopted into a family in Laub in 1790.
Anna Dorothea Christophel and Louisa Maria Christophel, adolpted daughters of Mattias Kuhlmann, are recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb38.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Klaus Christophel came from the German region of Holstein. The 1767 census records that Klaus Christoph came from the German village of Klosten in the region of Holstein.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Christophel family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 125.
- 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): Dn45, Dn51, Lb38, Mv0437.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 304.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #725.
Brent Mai