Eva Seibel, widow of Adam Seibel, and her children (Katharina, age 20; Johann, age 18; Adam, age 16¼; Nikolaus, age 13; Eva, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 17 July 1766 aboard a pink named Lev (Lion) under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.
The mother, Eva, and several children died after arriving in Russia. The surviving children (Nikolaus, age 13; Eva, age 11) settled in the Volga German colony of Grimm and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 7 along with Nikolaus Heimbuch who had married daughter Katharina.
Nikolaus Seibel (age 21) is recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 7 as the brother-in-law of Nikolaus Heimbuch.
Nikolaus Seibel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Grimm in Household No. Gm106.
Eva Maria Volmer Rohlmann née Seibel and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Grimm in Household No. Gm041.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that the Seibel family came from the German region of Friedberg.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 7).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 323.
- 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): Gm041, Gm106.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 74.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2389.
Brent Mai