Lorenz Zindel, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
They are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau (No. 10). They settled in the Volga German colony of Basel and are recorded there on the 1798 census in Household No. Bs16.
The death of Lorenz Zindel is recorded in 1818 on the 1834 census of Basel in Household No. 24.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Lorenz Zindel was a cobbler from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that he was a farmer from the German village of Offenbach in the Isenburg region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 679.
- 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): Bs16.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 265.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5397.
Brent Mai