Wendel Engel, son of Johann Engel, married in Leisenwald on 20 April 1752 to Anna Catharina Reifschneider, daughter of Johannes Reifschneider. [See Reifschneider Family.]
The parish register of nearby Spielberg records baptisms for four children born to Wendel Engel & Anna Catharina Reifschneider: (1) Johannes, baptized on 28 January 1753; (2) Johann Georg, baptized on 13 July 1755; (3) Elisabeth, baptized on 7 October 1758; and (4) Johann Heinrich, baptized on 31 January 1762.
Wendel Engel, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Johann, age 13; Georg, age 12; Elisabeth, age 8; Heinrich, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
Wenzel [sic] Engel, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Johannes, age 17; Johann Georg, age 14; Elisabeth, age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kutter in Household No. 15. They had arrived in Kutter on 8 July 1767.
Before 1788, son Georg Engel moved to the colony of Anton. Georg Engel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Anton in Household No. An04.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Wendel Engel came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 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): An04.
- Parish register of Spielberg (including Leisenwald).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 479.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3205.
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