Heinrich Diehl, a farmer, his wife Julianna, and Johann (age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a boat named Saratov under the command of Midshipman Ivan Korsakov.
Johann Heinrich Diehl, a farmer, his wife Juliana, and son Johann Balzer [Balthasar] are recorded on the 1767 census of Dreispitz in Household No. 29.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Diehl came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Diehl came from the German village of Weizwanal? in the Isenburg region.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 184.
- 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): Dr01.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 378.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1216.
Brent Mai