The marriage of Johannes Philipp Distel to Barbara Naass [widow of Johannes Martin Wagner] is recorded in the parish register of St. Mauritius Catholic Church in Hohen-Sülzen on 19 April 1762. [See Wagner Family.]
The baptism of one daughter born to Johannes Philipp Distel & Barbara Naass is also recorded in the parish register of St. Mauritius Catholic Church in Hohen-Sülzen: Joanna Juliana, born 27 March 1764.
Philipp Distel, a farmer, his wife Barbara, children (Julianna, age 2½; Franz, age ¼), and [step-]daughter (Katharina [Wagner], age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Neptunus (Neptune) under the command of Skipper Johann Graap.
Philipp Distel, a farmer, his wife Barbara, daughter Juliana (age 4), and stepdaughter Katharina [Wagner] (age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Rothammel in Household No. 26. They had arrived in Rothammel on 6 September 1767.
In 1791, Franz Distel moved from Rothammel to Franzosen.
Between 1816 and 1834, Franz Distel and his family moved from Franzosen to Husaren.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Distel came from the German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Philipp Distel came from the German village of Sillers in the Lothringen region. [Silly-sur-Nied (German: Sillers) is located in the Lorraine Region, historically part of the German region of Lothringen.]
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 735.
- 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): Fz32, Rt25, Rt26, Mv2496.
- Parish register of St. Mauritius Catholic Church in Hohen-Sülzen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 86.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5876.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the 1767 census of Rothammel recording the family of Philipp Distel.
Source: Anonymous2.