Two Hempel family settled in Norka. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Georg Hempel, a farmer, his wife Anna [Katharina], and children (Anna [Maria], age 16; [Anna] Gertrude, age 13; Johann [Peter], age 6; Elisabeth, age 5; August[a Magdalena], age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766.
Widow Katharina and the children settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 1 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 34.
(2) The baptisms of two children born to Johann Jost & Anna Catharina Hempel, are recorded in the parish register of Wächtersbach: (1) Johann Peter Hempel, baptized 23 February 1749; and (2) Louisa Margaretha Elisabeth, baptized 29 October 1744.
They arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 1 July 1767 where Johann Peter is recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 32. His sister has married by this time to Christoph Weisgerber and is recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 33.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that these Hempel families came from the German region of Isenburg. Research documents this Hempel family in the German village of Wächtersbach.
- 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): Hk01, Hk25.
- Parish register of Wächtersbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 148.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3133, #3134.
Brent Mai
Maggie Hein