Johann Loiselle, a farmer, and his wife Anna Dorothea arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Slon (Elephant) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Johann Loiselle, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his wife Wilhelmina Dorothea settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 21 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 87.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Loiselle came form France. The 1767 census records that Johann Lossel came from the French region of Picardie.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family Loiselle among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 522.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 381.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4106.
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