Johann Philipp Kessler was born 12 June 1674 and died 10 January 1751. He married in Bommersheim on 25 January 1700 to Agatha Euler. She had been born 4 March 1669 and died 22 June 1742.
Among their children is Johann Georg Kessler who was baptized in Bommersheim on 17 February 1709.
Johann Georg Kessler, a baker, married Anna Catharina [surname not known]. The baptism of one daughter born to Johann Georg & Anna Catharina Kessler is found in the parish register of Bommersheim: Anna Margaretha, baptized 13 March 1744.
Anna Catharina died and Johann Georg Kessler re-married on 14 January 1746 to Anna Margaretha Wolff, the widow of Johann Wilhelm Kiz. The parish register of one daughter born to Johann Georg Kessler & Anna Margaretha Wolff is recorded in the parish register of Bommersheim: Anna Ursula, baptized 25 April 1748.
Anna Margareatha died at the age of 40 on 10 February 1750, and Johann Georg Kessler married a third time on 3 May 1751 to Anna Margaretha Hahn, daughter of Heinrich Sebastian & Anna Catharina Hahn. The baptisms of the following children born to Johann Georg Kessler & Anna Margaretha Hahn have been located: (1) Johannes, baptized 14 February 1752 in Bommersheim; (2) Johann Philipp, baptized 9 March 1754 in Oberhöchstadt; and (3) Agatha, baptized 13 May 1757 in Bommersheim, died 18 August 1759.
Johann Georg Kessler, a baker, his wife Anna Margaretha, and sons (Johann, age 16¼; Johann Philipp, age 14) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Gilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Johannes Schmidt, a farmer, his wife Margaretha [widow of Johann Georg Kessler], children (Johannes, age 12; Maria Ursula, age 12), and step-sons (Johannes [Kessler], age 16; Johann Philipp [Kessler], age 15) are recorded on the 1767 census of Preuss in Household No. 3. They had arrived in Preuss on 12 May 1767. [See Schmidt Family.]
Johannes Kessler and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss in Household No. Ps72.
In 1790, Johannes Kessler moved from Preuss to Hölzel.
Johann Kessler from Preuss is recorded on the 1798 census of Hölzel in Household No. Hz25.
Philipp Kessler from Preuss and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dehler in Household No. Dl43.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Georg Kessler came from the German region of Mainz.
- 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): 136.
- 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): Dl43, Hz25, Ps72, Mv2349.
- Parish register of St. Aureus & Justina Catholic Church in Bommersheim.
- Parish register of St. Vitus Catholic Church in Oberhöchstadt.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 414.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #808.
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