Rattel
Johannes Rattel & Anna Rosina Meÿer were married on 25 April 1766 in the Lutheran Cathedral (Evangelische Kirche Dom) in Lübeck. This is believed to be the same Johann Rattel that arrived in Oranienbaum.
Johann [Georg] Rattel, a butcher, and his wife Katharina [sic] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Johannes Ratel [sic], his wife Catharina, and son Johannes (born en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov.
Johann [Georg] Rattel, a farmer, and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Kaneau on 7 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No 59.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Rattel came from the German region of Bayreuth.
- 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): Kn13.
- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga: 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): #147.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 256.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1472.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0979-0981.
Brent Mai