Peter Mörkel, a farmer, his wife Anna, children (Anna, age 7; Peter, age 5; Konrad, age 3), and mother Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Peter Mörkel, his wife Anna Maria, children (Magdalena, age 7; Peter, age 4½; Conrad, age 3), and mother [unnamed] Brotzman are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father Peter, son Conrad, and mother Brotzman died en route. [This family was also arrived in Oranienbaum and travelled from St. Petersburg to Saratov with the Ludwig Brotzmann family which implies a relationship. The Ludwig Brotzmann family has not been located among the Volga German colonies.]
Peter died and Anna [Maria?] remarried to Johann Georg Sohn. The combined Sohn / Mörkel family settled in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 62.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Mörkel came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 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): Nm22.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 199.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4450.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6243-6247.
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