Konrad Fenzel [sic], a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit (Vigilance) under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.
Konrad Förster [sic], a baker (Bäcker), his [new] wife Eva, and daughter Kunigunda (age 8-days) are recorded on the 1767 census of Lauwe in Household No. 19. They had settled there on 5 September 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Fenzel [sic] came from the German region of Nürnberg. The 1767 census records that Konrad Förster [sic] came from the German village of Karich [?] in the Berend [?] region.
Idt & Rauschenbach record this surname as Wenzel that settled in Lauwe.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Wenzel family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 768.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 41.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6150.
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