Jakob Henkel, a carpenter, his wife Anna, and their children (Anna, age 17½; Johann, age 16¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Widower Jakob Henkel is recorded on the 1775 census of Schilling in Household No. 77 along with the younger children of his second wife, the widow of Sebastian Lerch with whom he had arrived in Oranienbaum, and his youngest daughter Anna Elisabeth (age 4½).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Henkel came from the German village of Gelnhausen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Henkel family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1775 Census of Schilling (No. 77).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 235-236.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1683.
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