Ziegler (Seelmann)
Franz Siegler and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Jager under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Seelmann on 15 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 8.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Franz Siegler was a cobbler while the 1767 census records that he was a blacksmith (Schmied).
The 1767 census records that Franz Siegler came from the German village of Gemünden in the region of Würzburg.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 150.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2202.
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