Johann Valentin Jäckel was born in Wald-Michelbach (west of Weinheim in Hessen) on 19 April 1720. He married in Wald-Michelbach on 17 January 1751 to Anna Margaretha Hild. She had been born on 3 September 1725.
They immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein).
Valentin Jäckel, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Anna Margaretha, age 16; Johann Nikolaus, age 11; Johann Georg, age 7; Georg Valentin, age 3; Eva [Magd]Elena, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
Siblings Johann Nikolaus [Jäkel] (age 16), Johann Valentin [Jäkel] (age 10), and Eva Magdalena [Jäkel] (age 8) are recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Household No. 68 as the stepchildren of widower Franz Heinrich Becker.
Nikolaus Jäkel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Beideck in Household No. Bd17.
[Georg] Valentin Jäkel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Beideck in Household No. Bd10.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Valentin Jäckel came from the German region of the Pfalz.
[There is a Valentin Jäckel who on 16 April 1766 married Barbara Heizenröder in Lübeck, but it is doubtful that this is the same Valentin Jäckel whose children later settled in Beideck.]
- 1775 Beideck Census (Household No. 68).
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): 458.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 787.
- Lang, Gerhard. German Colonists of Denmark on the Volga.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Bd10, Bd17.
- 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): 16.
- Parish register of Wald-Michelbach (LDS Film No. 1340338).
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6294.
Gerhard Lang
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Valentin Jäkel and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.