Engeler*
Johann Engeler, his wife Anna, and daughters (Anna, age 16; Maria, age 3) arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 May 1766 aboard the galliot Die Hoffnung under the command of Skipper Johann Heschke.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kamenka on 1 March 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 67.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Engeler was a farmer from Elbingen. The 1767 census records that Johann Engeler was a tiler (Fliesenleger) from the German town of Elbing in Poland.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Engeler family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Km057.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 232.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #339.
Brent Mai