Peter Ohl/Uhl, a miller (Müller), and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 35.
Peter Ohl (age 40), a miller (Müller), his wife Maria Theresia née Sapp (age 21), and son Peter (born in 1778) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 40.
The 1767 census records that Peter Ohl/Uhl came from the German village of Schlangenbad in the Kurmainz region. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that he came from the German village of Schlangenbad in the Mainz region and that his wife came from the German town of Köln am Rhein.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Ohl family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 40).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 284.
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