Martin Kal [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughter Christina (age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Martin Capelle [sic], his wife Anna, and daughter Christiana [sic] (age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Martin Kappell, a mason (Maurer), his wife Anna Maria Feidel, and daughter Christina (age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 140. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Martin Kappell came from the German village of Rostock and that Anna Maria Feidel came from the town of Lübeck.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 306.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4804.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4919-4921.
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