Joseph Karl and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Friede (Peace) under the command of Skipper Hans Karck.
Joseph Carl is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Joseph Karl, a merchant (Kaufmann), and his wife Friederika are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 24.
In 1774, Joseph Karl and his family moved from Schönchen to Moscow.
It is presumed that the same Joseph Karl (age 33), a carpenter (Tischler), who is recorded with his wife Johanna Elisabeth (widow Müller) on the 1776 Katharinenstdt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 126 along with a note that they have been on leave [Beurlaubt] to Orenburg since 1775.
The 1767 census records that Joseph Karl came from the German region of Hamburg. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that this Joseph Karl came from the village of Baronville in Luxemburg and that his wife came from the German village of Erlangen in the region of Bayreuth.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Karl family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstdt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 126).
- 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): 875.
- 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): Mv2595.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 328.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #7132.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4602.
Brent Mai