Spelling Variations
Dächel*
Дехель*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Jakob Dächel, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 51.
The 1767 census records that Jakob Dächel came from the German village of Mörsfeld in the Kurpfalz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Dächel family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 421.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai