Beckel

Associated Colonies
Place of origin
Gelnhaar (Ortenberg), Wetteraukreis, Hessen, Germany
Description

Johann Heinrich Beckel and Anna Margaretha Appel were married in Gelnhaar on 12 Dec 1747. The baptisms of eight children are recorded in the Gelnhaar parish records: Johannes, born 6 Mar, baptized 10 Mar 1748 (died 17 Oct 1755); Wilhelmina, born 20 Jul, baptized 28 July 1750; Anna Catharina, born 7 Nov, baptized 12 Nov 1752; Maria Gertraud, born 9 Jul, baptized 14 Jul 1754; Johann Georg, born 14 Sep, baptized 18 Sep 1757 (died 22 Apr 1759); Johann Heinrich, born 2 Dec, baptized 5 Dec 1759; Johann Wolff Hermann, born 31 Mar, baptized 4 Apr 1762; and Johannes born 28 Dec, baptized 30 Dec 1764. 

The family arrived in Russia on 15 Sep 1766, and is reported on the Walter First Setter’s List in Family #62 (with the surname incorrectly spelled "Bäcker"). Members of this family are recorded on the 1798 Census in Walter with the surname Begel: Johann Heinrich (age 33) in Household No. 45 (Wt045) and Katharina (age 46) in Household No. 61 (Wt061) married to Leopold Becker.

Sources

- Parish records of Gelnhaar, Family Search film #1201724
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010) p. 383
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Nordost-Institute, 2008): p. 309
- 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): 1000 & 1002

Researchers
Maggie Hein
Jean Roth
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