Johannes Truschel, son of Jacob Truschel & Cäcilia Schlitzer, was born 15 April 1703 in Großenlüder. He married 15 August 1724 in Großenlüder to Eva Catharina (Elisabeth) Stock, daughter of Johannes Stock & Margaretha Hosenfeld. She had been born 11 April 1705 in Großenlüder.
The births of 7 children to Johannes Truschel & Eva Catharina (Elisabeth) Stock are recorded in the parish register of Großenlüder: (1) Margaretha, born 19 January 1725; (2) Johannes, born 12 March 1727; (3) Johann Adam, born 22 January 1730; (4) Johann Caspar, born 28 July 1735; (5) Agnes, born 11 July 1738; (6) Johannes, born 2 August 1740; and (7) Hieronymus, born 5 September 1743.
Father Johannes Truschel died 24 April 1762 in Großenlüder.
Son Johannes Truschel [born 1740], a farmer, and his wife Barbara arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Elisabeth Catharina under the command of Skipper Heinrich Ludwig Gottknecht.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 26 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 84.
Johannes Truschel and his wife Barbara are recorded on the 1798 census of Brabander in Household Bn27.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Trutschel came from the German region of Fulda. The 1767 census records that Johannes Truschel came from the German village of Grossenlüder in the Fulda region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 401.
- 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): Bn27.
- Parish register of Großenlüder.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 232.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3083.
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