Johann Jacob Madly (age 25), a single servant in the household of Heinrich Knorr, is recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 6 September 1765.
Johann Jakob Matle [sic], a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Anna Katharina, and [step-]daughter Maria Elisabeth [surname not recorded] (age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Bauer in Household No. 13. They had arrived in Bauer on 20 July 1766.
Katharina Stehle née Mathle, presumed daughter of Johann Jakob Matle, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br50.
The 1765 Worms list records that Johann Jacob Madley came from the German village of Colmar. The 1767 census records that Johann Jakob Matle came from the German village of Kollmar in the area of Elag [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 122 (#240).
- 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): Br50.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 118.
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