Riedel (Katharinenstadt)
Martin Riedel, his wife Margaretha, and son Hans (age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.
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.
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.
- 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 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.