The parish register of St. Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Bad Camberg records on 23 February 1751 the marriage of Johann Dötzel to Anna Maria Kröckel from Erbach.
The baptisms of the following children born to Johann Dötzel & Anna Maria Kröckel are recorded in the parish register of St. Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Bad Camberg: (1) Peter, baptized 21 April 1753; (2) Heinrich, baptized 17 September 1755; and (3) Anna Maria, baptized 20 August 1757.
Johann Dötzel, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Peter, age 16¼; Anna, age 10¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a barque named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Sewald on 20 August 1767. Widow Anna Maria Dötzel and children (Peter, age 15; Anna Maria, age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Sewald in Household No. 41 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Volmer in 1768.
The 1798 census of Volmer records Peter Dötzel in Household No. Vm38.
Johannes Dötzel from Volmer and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Marienfeld.
This surname is most often spelled as Detzel or Ditzel by later generations.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Dötzel came from the German region of Nassau. The 1767 census records that Anna Maria Dötzel came from the German village of Camberg in the Mainz region.
- 1857 Marienfeld Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 435.
- 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): Vm38.
- Parish register of St. Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Bad Camberg [Online].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 176.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3391.
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