Michel (Näb)
Johann Andreas Michel, son of Johann Martin & Anna Maria Michel, was baptized on 10 February 1737 in the Evangelical Church of Rockenhausen. His brother, Johann Jacob, was baptized on 15 January 1752 in the Evangelical Church of Kerzenheim. Both villages are just a short distance north-west and north-east of Winnweiler located about 15 kilometers north-east of Kaiserlautern.
Johann Andreas & Johann Jakob Michel emigrated to Russia, departing from Lübeck aboard the English frigate Love and Unity with skipper Thomas Fairfax at the helm. They arrived in the port of Oranienbaum near St. Peterburg on 12 September 1766.
Andreas Michaell [sic] and his brother Jacob (age 17½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Andreas Michael, his wife Anna, and brother Jakob (age 17) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 46.
They are recorded on the 1798 census of Näb in Households No. Nb20 (Johann Jakob) & Nb29 (Johann Andreas).
The death of Jakob Michel in 1822 is recorded on the 1834 census of Näb in Household No. 64.
The 1767 census records that Andreas Michael came from the German village of Weinichweler [Winnweiler].
- 1834 Näb Census (Household No. 64).
- 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): Nb20, Nb29.
- Parish records of Rockenhausen (LDS Film No. 193129).
- Parish records of Kerzenheim (LDS Film No. 247619).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 271.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5439.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3214-3215.
Corina Hirt
Brent Mai