Heinrich Feidel, a weaver (Weber), his wife Anna Katharina, and children (Anna Katharina, age 17; David Heinrich, age 15; Johanna Maria, age 12; Gottlieb, age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 12. They had arrived in Katharinenstadt on 27 July 1767.
Widower Heinrich Feidel and his children (Anna Katharina, age 24; Heinrich David, age 22) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 51 along with a note that Heinrich Feidel died in 1779 and that son Heinrich David Feidel married on 12 April 1778 to Elisabeth Zinnkann.
David Feidel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka053.
Anna Maria Feidel, also from Lübeck, is also recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 140 as the wife of Martin Kapel.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Feidel came from the German village of Lübeck. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Heinrich Feidel came from the German village of Rostock in the region of Mecklenburg and that his daughter had been born in Lübeck.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 51).
- 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): Ka053.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 278, 306.
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