Georg Philipp Diehl, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and son Johann (age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Heyer.
Widow Katharina Diehl and stepson Johann Peter Diehl (age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 15. They had settled there on 5 March 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Philipp Diehl came from the German region of Bieber. The 1767 census records that Katharina Diehl came from the German village of Rödern [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Diehl family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 62.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 292.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #143.
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