Beil (Bangert)
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Beil (Bangert)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Heinrich Beil and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Seelender.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Bangert on 1 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 21.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Beil was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a hosier (Strumpfwirker).
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Beil came from the German village of Homburg in the Darmstadt region.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 110.
Researcher(s):
Brent Mai