Adam Künzel, a single carpenter, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.
Adam Künzel, a carpenter (Zimmermann), his [new] wife Anna Elisabeth, and son Georg Ludwig (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 66 along with stepson Johann Philipp Ohl (age 15). They had arrived in Warenburg on 12 May 1767.
The widow and children of Adam Kanzel [sic] are recorded on the 1798 census in Households No. 5 & 6.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Künzel came from the German village of Aschaffenburg.
Some sources translate this surname as Kanzel, but this is believed to be an error.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 168.
- 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): Wr005, Wr006.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 331.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1077.
Brent Mai