Rochel
Peter Rochel, a farmer, his wife Esther, and children (Christoph, age 18; Elisabeth, age 15; Benjamin, age 12) arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 May 1766 aboard the galliot Die Hoffnung under the command of Skipper Johann Heschke.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kamenka on 1 March 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 59.
Philipp Rochel from Kamenka and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Josefstal in Household No. 50.
The 1767 census records that Peter Rochel came from the German village of Miltenberg.
- 1857 Josefstal Census (Household No. 50).
- 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): Km097.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 230.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #344.
Brent Mai