Johann Heinrich Krissel, a single weaver (Weber), settled in the Volga German colony of Degott on 18 July 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 11.
Johann Heinrich Krissel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Degott in Household No. Dg09.
Johann Heinrich Griessel [recorded as Johann Georg in 1798], son of Johann Heinrich Krissel, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Degott in Household No. 1s
The death of Heinrich Griessel in 1856 is recorded on the 1857 census of Degott in Household No. 23.
The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Krissel came from the German village of Steinen in the Hannover region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Krissel / Griessel family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Degott Census (Household No. 19).
- 1857 Degott Census (Household No. 23).
- 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): Dg09.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 265.
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