Johann Michael Hendel, a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Rosina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 1 August 1767 where Johann Michael Hendel is recorded in Household No. 41 along with his [new] wife Maria.
Johann Michael Hendel (age 47), his wife Anna Christina née Bernhardt (age 23) and children (August & Anna Maria [ages not recorded] are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 97.
The 1767 census records that Johann Michael Hendel came from the German village of Susshausen in the Württemberg region. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Johann Michael Hendel came from the German village of Susshausen in the Württemberg region and his wife came from the village of Erbach in the Hessen region. [See Bernhardt Family.]
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 97).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 35.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 889.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 285.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7279.
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