Sendelbach

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Sendelbach
Сендельбахъ
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Widow Maria Sendelbach and her sons (Johann Adam & Martin) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.

Maria Sendelbach, widow of an unnamed farmer, and son Georg Adam (age not recorded) are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 113. They had settled there on 26 June 1767.

Adam Sendelbach from Brabander is recorded on the 1798 census of Dehler in Household No. Dl05.

Georg Sendelbach is recorded on the 1834 census of Mariental in Household No. 179.

The 1767 census records that the Sendelbach family came from the German village of Theisau in Bayern (Bavaria).

Sources: 

- 1834 Mariental Census (Household No. 179).
- 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): Dl05.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 238.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3085, #3086.

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Volga Colonies