Konrad Michel, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children ([a] Ludwig, age 24; Anna, age 22; [b] Johann, age 20; Margaretha, age 17¼; [c] Peter, age 11; Maria, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 June 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Святой Николай (St. Nicolaus) under the command of Midshipman Thomas McKenzie.
Konrad Michel, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and children (Johannes, age 20; Anna Margaretha, age 17; Peter, age 12; Maria Elisabeth, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 31. They had settled in Moor on 18 June 1767.
[a] Ludwig Michel and his [new] wife Anna Elisabeth [Kaiser] are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 33. [See Kaiser Family in Messer.]
Ludwig Michel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Moor in Household No. Mo17.
The death of Ludwig Michel in 1831 is recorded on the 1834 census of Moor in Household No. 20.
Heinrich Michel, son of Ludwig Michel, from Moor is recorded on the 1811 census of Kautz in Household No. 30 along with a note that he had arrived in Kautz from Moor in 1806.
Heinrich Michel and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kautz in Household No. 42.
Widower Georg Heinrich Michel is recorded on the 1857 census of Kautz in Household No. 42. There are no known surviving male lines of this Georg Heinrich Michel family among the Volga German colonies.
[b] Johannes Michel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Moor in Household No. Mo57.
The death of Johannes Michel in 1819 is recorded on the 1834 census of Moor in Household No. 77.
[c] Peter Michel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Moor in Household No. Mo21.
Elisabeth Michel, widow of Peter Michel, and her son Friedrich are recorded on the 1834 census of Moor in Household No. 29.
Friedrich Michel and his family (including son Johann Christian) are recorded on the 1857 census of Moor in Household No. 31.
Johannes Michel, son of Johann Christian Michel, and his family moved to the colony of Grimm.
The 1767 census records that Konrad Michel came from the German district of Isenburg.
- 1811 Kautz Census (Household No. 30).
- 1834 Kautz Census (Household No. 42).
- 1834 Moor Census (Households No. 16, 17, 20, 28, 29, 66, 71, 77, 103, 114, 120, 125, 155).
- 1857 Kautz Census (Household No. 42).
- 1857 Moor Census (Households No. 17, 18, 21, 30, 31, 71, 76, 83, 111, 122, 128, 133, 164).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 180.
- 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): Mo17, Mo21, Mo57, Mo64.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 163-164.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1185.
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