Martin Riedel, his wife Margaretha, and son Hans (age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Martin Ridel [sic], his wife Margaretha, and son Mathias (age 2) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Martin Riedel, a copper smith (Kupferschmied), his wife Margaretha, and son Michael (age 3) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 33 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Katharinenstadt in 1768.
Martin Riedel, a miller (Müller), his wife Margaretha Eck, and son Michael (age 3) are also recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 12.
Martin Riedel (age 34), a miller (Müller), his wife Margaretha née Eck (age 30), and children (Johann Michael, age 10; Johann Heinrich, age 8; Anna Elisabeth, age 2) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 35 along with a note recording the birth of another daughter (Katharina Margaretha, born 1 November 1777).
Heinrich Riedel is recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka059. He is presumed to be the son of Johann Martin Riedel.
The 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou records that Johann Martin Riedel came from the German village of Kleinlagingen. The 1767 census of Katharinenstadt records that Martin Riedel came from the German village of Langheim in the Ansbach area. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Martin Riedel came from the German village of Langheim in the Ansbach area and that Margaretha née Eck came from the German village of Saltzheim in the Würzburg region.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 35).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 835.
- 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): Ka059.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6714 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 326.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 212.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4118-4120.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Martin Riedel and his family.
Source:Brent Mai.