Johann Dietzel, a baker, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Johannes Ditzel and his wife Christina are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johannes Dietzel, a baker (Bäcker), and his wife Christina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 125.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Dietzel came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Fell in the Darmstadt region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Dietzel family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 2005): 375.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4664.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3279-3280.
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