Dietel / Tittel

Johann Christian Dietel was born 7 March 1702 in Bautzen and died there on 27 August 1857. He married Dorothea Heinik. She had been born in 1697 in Bautzen and died there on 9 April 1758.

The baptisms of the following children born to Johann Christian Dietel & Dorothea Heinik are recorded in the parish register of Bautzen: (1) Maria Dorothea, baptized 28 May 1728; (2) Christian Gottlieb, baptized 12 June 1729; (3) Maria Magdalena, born 19 July 1731, baptized 22 July 1731; (4) Christian Gottfried, born 27 April 1733, baptized 29 April 1733; and (5) Johanna Sophia, baptized 30 January 1735.

Gottlieb [sic] Dietel, a farmer, his wife Johanna, and son Christian (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Saratov under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.

Neither Johanna nor son Christian survived the journey from St. Petersburg to Saratov.

Christian Gottfried Dietel, a clerk (Schreiber), and his [new] wife Maria Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Dietel in Household No. 1. They had arrived in Dietel on 1 July 1767. A note on the 1767 census indicates that Christian Gottfried Dietel is serving as the colony's mayor [Vorsteher]. It is after him that the colony took its name.

In 1788, son Christian Dietel moved from Dietel to Hussenbach. Christian Dietel from Dietel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. Hs036.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gottlieb [sic] Dietel came from the German region of Sachsen [Saxony]. The 1767 census records that Christian Gottfried Dietel came from the German village of Bautzen in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).