Spelling Variations
Wahl (Göbel)
Валь (Göbel)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
August[in] Wahl, a farmer, his wife Eva, and children (Anna, age 6; Johann, age 4) arrived from Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 30 May 1766 aboard the pink Novaya Dvinka under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Göbel on 25 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 32.
The 1767 census records that Augustin Wahl came from the German village of Soden in the Kurpfalz region.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 46.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #481.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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