Martin Feßel married Johanna Katharina Dorothea Lorber on 31 March 1766 in Roßlau.
An article by Hermann Wäschke records the following:
Martin Fessel, 24 years old, and Elisabeth Fessel, 20 years old, from Quellendorf, children of the late master mason (Maurermeister) Martin Fessel. Their mother and their remaining six children stayed in Quellendorf in the Fessel cottager's home (Kossatengute).
Martin Fessel, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and his mother Dorothea arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Martin Fessel and his wife Catharina are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that wife Catharina died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 7 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 85.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Martin Fessel came from the German region of Dessau. The 1767 census records that Martin Fessel came from the German village of Quellendorf in the region of Dessau.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): .
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #883, #1063.
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- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 160.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1429.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0826-0827.
- Wäschke, Hermann. "Deutsche Familien in Russland" in Roland, Archiv für Stamm- und Wappenkunde, Jubiläumsschrift, 18 January 1912: 87.
Brent Mai