Joseph Karl and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hans Karholm.
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.
The 1767 census records that Joseph Karl came from the German region of Hamburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Karl family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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.
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