Anna Maria Catharina Vogel, daughter of Johann Georg & Maria Magdalena Vogel was baptized in Heilbronn on 1 December 1728. She married Johannes Schwemle.
Johann Schwemmler, a baker (Bäcker), his [unnamed] wife, and 4 [unnamed] children migrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Flensburg on 22 May 1762. They settled in the colony of Wilhelminenfeld on 26 September 1763.
The baptism of Johanna Regina Rebeka Schwemle [sic], daughter of Johannes Schwemle [sic] & Anna Maria Catharina Vogel, is recorded in the parish register of Ladelund on 19 July 1764.
The deaths of two children of Johannes Schwemle [sic] & Anna Maria Catharina Vogel are recorded in the parish register of Ladelund: (1) Johanna Margaretha, died 15 December 1765; and (2) Dorothea Concordia, died 4 December 1765.
They are last recorded in the Danish colonies on 20 December 1765. They joined the migration to Russia.
Johann[es] Schwemmler, a farmer, his wife Anna Katharina, and children (Anna Margaretha, age 10; Johann Michael, age 7½; Regina Rebekka, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the Danish galliot Der Engel Rafael under the command of Skipper Ehlert Kongsted.
Widower Johannes Schwemler and his children (Johanna Elisabeth, age 11; Johann Michel, age 7) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Schwemmler, a farmer, and his daughter Johanna Elisabeth (age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Laub in Household No. 64 along with a note that his wife had died back in Holstein [Germany] and that he relocated to the colony of Dinkel in 1768.
The widow and son (Johann Ludwig) of Johann Schwemmler are recorded on the 1798 census of Dinkel in Household No. Dn09.
Johann Ludwig Schwemmler and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Dinkel in Household No. 62.
The Eichhorns record that Johann Schwemle [sic] came from the German region of Württemberg. The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann[es] Schwemmler came from the German region of Heilbronn. The 1767 census records that Johann Schwemmler came from the German village of Erschten Hellbrun [?] in the region of Holstein.
- 1834 Dinkel Census (Household No. 62).
- 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): Dn09.
- Parish register of Heilbronn.
- Parish register of Ladelund.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 35.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #3446.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2192-2194
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