Joh. Henrich Sendelbach & Anna Margr. Seils [sic] were married on 8 March 1766 at the Lutheran Church in Büdingen.
Heinrich Sentelbach [sic], a farmer, and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 27 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Слон (Slon - Elephant in Russian) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Heinrich Sildenbach [sic] (age 36), a farmer, and his wife Margaretha Seitz (age 23) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leichtling in Household No. 5. They had arrived in Leichtling on 14 June 1767.
Margaretha Seitz, widow of Heinrich Sendelbach, and their children (Georg, age 29; Michael, age 23, Dorothea, age 19) are recorded on the 1798 census of Leichtling in Household No. Lg18 along with a note that Georg Sendelbach is working in the colony of Köhler.
The death of Georg Sendelbach in 1830 is recorded on the 1834 census of Mariental in Household No. 179.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Sendelbach came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Aschaffenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Sendelbach family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Mariental Census (Household No. 179).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 106.
- 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): Lg18.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #387.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 52.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #538.
Brent Mai