Jacob Bandel (age 32), a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Appolonia Brotz (age 48), and stepchildren [surname Schechtel] (Heinrich, age 16; Sophia, age 13; Barbara, age 9; Peter, age 6; Wilhelm, age 6) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms.
Jakob Bändel, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Appolonia, and [step-]children [whose father was the deceased Anton Schechtel] (Heinrich, age 19; Sophia, age 16; Barbara, age 12; Peter, age 8; Wilhelm, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schuck in Household No. 6. They had arrived in Schuck on 18 June 1766.
(1) Margaretha [sic], the widow of Anton Schechtel, and her son Wilhelm and and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schuck in Household No. Su26.
(2) Heinrich Schechtel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schuck in Household No. Su32.
Jakob Schechtel, son of Heinrich Schechtel, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kamenka in Household 7.
(3) Peter Schechtel from Schuck and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm02.
Jakob Schlechtel, son of Peter Schechtel, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Köhler in Household No. 20.
There is an additional Schechtel family that is assumed to be related to this family. In 1787, Heinrich Schechtel left Schönchen.
The 1765 Worms list records that Jacob Bandel came from the German village of Badenheim, and the Schechtel family is presumed to have come from there (or nearby) as well.
- 1834 Kamenka Census (Household No. 7).
- 1834 Köhler Census (Households No. 10, 20).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 129 (#401-407).
- 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): Su26, Su32, Vm02, Mv2627.
Brent Mai