Two Hempel family settled in Huck. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research. They both arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
(1) Georg Hempel, a farmer, his wife Anna [Katharina], and children (Anna [Maria], age 16¼; [Anna] Gertrude, age 13; Johann [Peter], age 6; Elisabeth, age 5; August[a Magdalena], age ¼) arrived in Oranienbaum.
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.
Johann [Peter] Hempel, a single farmer, and his sister Louisa (age 21) arrived in Oranienbaum.
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.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 405.
- 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
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