Two Ruppel families are recorded together on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. Their relationship to each other, if any, requires additional research.
(1) Johann Caspar Rüppel [sic] from Wallernhausen married on 26 June 1766 in St. Mary's Lutheran Church in Büdingen to Anna Elisabeth Appel, daughter of the deceased Heinrich Appel from Unter-Lais [see Appel Family in Yagodnaya Polyana]. Anna Elisabeth had been baptized in August 1730 in Unter-Lais.
Johann Kaspar Ruppel, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named St. Johannes (Saint John) under the command of Skipper Carstens Stahl.
Joh. Caspar Rupel [sic] and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
Anna Elisabeth Appel is recorded on the 1798 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. Yp29 as the wife of Heinrich Stang.
(2) Johann Ruppel, a farmer, and his wife Anna Christina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
Johannes Rupel [sic] and his wife Christina are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Johannes died in route.
It is not known in which colony the widow Christina Ruppel settled.
There are no known surviving male lines of these Ruppel families among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 780, 793.
- 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): Yp29.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 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): #7036-7037.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #713.
- Parish register of St. Mary's Lutheran Church in Büdingen.
- Parish register of Wallernhausen (including Ober-Lais & Unter-Lais).
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6247, #6351.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8150-8153.
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