Mariental
Spelling Variations:
Mariental
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Daniel Mariental, a miller (Müller), and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Cäsarsfeld on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 13.
The 1767 census records that Daniel Mariental came from the German village of Tauberbischofsheim.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 246.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6912.
Researcher(s):
Brent Mai