The baptisms of two children born to Johann Conrad & Anna Dorothea Nickel are recorded in the parish register of Glauberg: (1) Johann Adam, baptized 20 October 1723; and (2) Anna Barbara, born 5 October 1735, baptized 9 October 1735.
(1) Johann Adam Nickel married on 27 January 1752 in Glauberg to Anna Appolonia Koberling, daughter of Johann Conrad Koberling.
The parish register of Glauberg records the following children were born to Johann Adam Nickel & Anna Appolonia Koberling: (1) Johann Heinrich, baptized 21 August 1752; (2) Georg Wilhelm, baptized 15 June 1755; (3) Anna Barbara, baptized 8 October 1758; (4) Johannes, baptized 2 September 1759; (5) Johann Matthias, baptized 13 October 1762; and (6) Anna Margaretha, baptized 5 September 1765.
Adam Nickel, a farmer, his wife Appolonia, and sons (Johann Heinrich, age 18; Georg, age 12; Johann, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Galka on 27 July 1767 where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 51.
The 1767 census records that Johann Adam Nickel came from the German village of Glauburg near Gelnhausen.
(2) Anna Barbara Nickel married on 7 February 1764 in Glauberg to Johann Caspar Fuchs, son of Johann Peter Fuchs & Beata Geberd. They also migrated to Russia. [See Fuchs Family.]
There are no known surviving male lines of this Nickel family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 248.
- 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): Gk21.
- Parish register of Glauberg.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 33.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1773, #1774.
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