Peter Deisel from Ziegenhain married on 11 November 1751 to Maria Elisabetha Lehr, daughter of Georg Heinrich & Anna Catharina Lehr.
Maria Elisabetha Lehr had been born on 4 September 1720 in Himbach. [See Lehr Family.]
Peter and Maria Elisabetha had two children, both born in Himbach: (1) Katharina Elisabeth, born 16 October 1752; and (2) Johann Carl, born 15 February 1757.
Peter Deisel, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Katharina, age 15¼; Johann [Karl], age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Messer on 18 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 74.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Deisel was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker).
Both documents record that Peter Deisel came from the German region of Isenburg.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
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- 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): Ms71.
- Parish register of Eckartshausen (including Himbach) - LDS Films #1201827 and #1201828.
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