Johann Adam Schetzel, a farmer, and his wife Maria Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Diederika (Lady Diederika) under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Lunau.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Hussenbach. Adam's widow is recorded there on the 1798 census in Household No. Hs087.
Descendants of this Schetzel family are recorded on the 1834 census of Hussenbach in Households No. 95, 195, & 214.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Adam Schetzel came from the German region of the Pfalz.
- 1834 Hussenbach Census (Households No. 95, 195, 214).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 765.
- 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): Hs087, Hs088.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6122.
Brent Mai