Happel (Krasnoyar)*
Johann Georg Happel & Anna Margr. Denes were married on 19 March 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Johann Georg Happel, his wife Anna Margaretha, and servant Anna Margaretha [surname not recorded] (age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard the Russian pink Vologda under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev.
Georg Happel [erroneously recorded as Appel], a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 61.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Georg Happel came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Georg Happel came from the German village of Grünberg in the Darmstadt region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): #447.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 431.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4918.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Johann Georg Happel and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.