Andreas Geizel [sic], his wife Johanna, and daughter Johanna (age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Widower Andreas Geisel, a cloth weaver (Tuchweber), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 59 along with a note that he settled in the colony of Schaffhausen in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Andreas Geisel came from the German village of Grohnde.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Geisel family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 860.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 216.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6982.
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