The marriage of Augustin Riedl from Regensburg to Anna Maria Eslinger from Grünthal is recorded in the parish register of the Cathedral of St. Ulrich in Regensburg on 14 September 1765.
The baptism of Anna Maria Eslinger, daughter of Johann Georg Eslinger from Grünthal, is recorded in the parish register of the Catholic Church in Irlbach on 22 June 1736.
Augustin Riedel, a soldier (Soldat), and his wife Anna Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Herzog on 14 July 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 11.
Michael Riedel, presumed to be the son of Augustin Riedel, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Herzog in Household No. Hr24.
The 1767 census records that Augustin Riedel came from the German village of Regensburg.
- 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): Hr24.
- Parish register of the Cathedral of St. Ulrich in Regensburg.
- Parish register of the Catholic Church in Irlbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 90.
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