Nickel (Warenburg-2)
Johann [Peter] Nickel, a farmer, his wife Julianna, and children (Johann, age 15; Johann [again], age 8; Barbara, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg. [It appears that the 15-year-old Johann was Johann Raabe.]
Johann Peter Nickel, a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Julianna are recorded there on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 35 along with orphan Johannes Raabe (age 15). The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Nickel and Raabe families. They had settled in Warenburg on 12 May 1767.
Peter Nickel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr067.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Nickel from the German region of Hessen. The 1767 census records that Johann Peter Nickel came from the German village of Windhausen in the Hessen-Kassel region.
- 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): Wr067.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 326.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1147.
Brent Mai