Joseph Anzel [sic], a single tinsmith, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Joseph Harsel [sic] is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann [sic] Hansel, a tinsmith (Zinnarbeiter), and his [new] wife Katharina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux.
It is not known in which colony he settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Joseph Anzel came from the city of Prag [Prague]. The 1767 census records that Johann Hansel came from the village of Prague in Bohemia.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hansel family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 165.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4588.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5846.
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