Peil (Holstein)

Spelling Variations: 
Peil (Holstein)
Пейль (Holstein)
Settled in the Following Colonies: 
Discussion & Documentation: 

Johannes Peil, his wife Anna Katharina, and his sister Anna Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Holstein on 7 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 44.

The widow and children of Johannes Peil are recorded on the 1798 census of Holstein in Household No. Ho07.

Johann Adam and Johannes Peil, sons of Johannes Peil, and their families are recorded on the 1834 census of Holstein in Households No. 5 & 72.

Johann Karl Peil, son of Johannes Peil, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Dobrinka in Household No. 17.

Friedrich Peil from Holstein and his brother Adam are recorded on the 1850 census of Galka in Household No. 215 along with a note that they had arrived from Holstein in Galka in 1835.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Peil was a carpenter (Zimmermann) from the German village of Bietlingen.

Sources: 

- 1834 Dobrinka Census (Household No. 17).
- 1834 Holstein Census (Households No. 5, 72).
- 1850 Galka Census (Household No. 215).
- 1850 Holstein Census (Households No. 7, 8, 111).
- 1857 Galka Census (Household No. 214).
- 1857 Holstein Census (Households No. 7, 8).
- 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): Ho07.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 136.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Volga Colonies

Immigration Locations