Benedict Deibele, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Kronshlot under the command of Skipper Ivan Kunakovskii.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Pfeifer on 20 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 49 along with his [new] wife Rosina.
Benedict Deibele and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf16.
The deaths of both Benedict and his wife Eva are recorded in the parish register of Pfeifer in 1803.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Benedict Deibele was a watchmaker from the German region of Franken (Franconia). The 1767 census records that he was a glazier (Glaser) from Achern.
- 1834 Pfeifer Census (Household No. 180).
- 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): Pf16.
- Parish register of Pfeifer.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 389.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3043.
Brent Mai