Martin Kal [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna, and [step-]daughter Christina [Lassen] (age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Martin Capelle [sic], his wife Anna, and [step-]daughter Christiana [sic] (age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Martin Kappell, a mason (Maurer), his wife Anna Maria Feidel, and [step-]daughter Christina [Lassen] (age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 140. They had settled there on 3 August 1767. [See Kappell Family.]
Martin Kappell, his wife Anna Maria née Feidel (widow Lassen), and step-daughter Christina Dorothea Lassen (age 14) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 73 along with a note that Martin died in 1783.
Christiana Wegner née Kappell and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka073 along with her mother widow Anna Elisabeth Kappell (age 73).
The 1767 census records that Martin Kappell came from the German village of Rostock and that Anna Maria Feidel came from the town of Lübeck. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register came from the German village of Rostock in the Mecklenburg region and that his wife came from Lübeck.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Lassen family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 73).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Ka073.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 306.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4804.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4919-4921.
Brent Mai