Ockel (Bauer)
Tobias Ockel (age 28), a single miller (Müller), is recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms.
Johann Tobias Ockel, a farmer, and his [new[ wife Anna Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Bauer on 20 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 12 along with a note that they relocated to the neighboring colony of Kratzke in 1768.
Johannes Ockel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br60.
Johann Valentin Ockel and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Bauer in Household No. 138.
Heinrich Ockel, the illegitimate son of the wife of Christian Brecht, is recorded on the 1834 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. 154. He is believed to be part of the Ockel family in Bauer.
The 1765 Worms list records that Tobias Ockel came from the German village of Nieder-Ramstadt. The 1767 census records that Johann Tobias Ockel came from the German village of Niederheimstadt [sic] in the Darmstadt region.
- 1834 Bauer Census (Household No. 138).
- 1834 Yagodnaya Census (Household No. 154).
- 1857 Neu-Yagodnaya-Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 131 (#442).
- 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): Br60.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 118.
Brent Mai