Martin Vogel, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Maria, age 17½; Johann, age 13) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Svyatoi Pavel (St. Paul) under the command of the Lieutenant Fyedor Sornev.
Martin and his wife died after arrival in Russia, and daughter Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Dietel on 1 July 1767. She is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 36 along with the Kaspar Koch family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Vogel and Koch families.
Widow Elisabeth Vogel from Dietel is recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br45.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Martin Vogel came from the German region of Alsace.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Vogel family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 357.
- 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): Br45.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 293.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2695.
Brent Mai