Adam Seibel (abt. 1730 - abt. 1766)

Born about 1730 in Friedberg, Hessen, Germany

Descendants

Died about 1766 at about age 36 in Friedberg, Hessen, Germany

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Biography

Adam Seibel was a Volga German.

Adam Seibel has German Roots.

Family #7a in the 1767 Grimm census.

Anna Eva and Adam Seibel/Seippell are named in both his daughter's birth record, and as the father of two orphaned children in the 1767 Grimm census.

Daughter's Birth Record ^[1]

Name: Anna Catharina Seippell [sic?]

Gender: Female

Birth Date: 13 Sep 1749

Baptism Date: 14 Sep 1749

Baptism Place: Evangelisch, Kaichen, Oberhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt

Father: Johann Adam Seippell

Mother: Anna Eva Kirchner

FHL Film Number: 1269687

Birth Record ^[2]

Name: Johann Adam Seipel

Gender: Male

Birth Date: 3 Feb 1727

Baptism Date: 5 Feb 1727

Baptism Place: Pfungstadt, Hessen, Germany

Father: J. Ludwig Seipel

Mother: Anna Margretha

FHL Film Number: 1195494

Marriage Record #1 ^[3]

Name: Anna Eva Kirchner

Gender: Female

Marriage Date: 15 Okt 1748 (15 Oct 1748)

Marriage Place: Evangelisch, Kaichen, Oberhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt

Father: Johann Henrich Kirchner

Spouse: Johann Adam Seippell

FHL Film Number: 1269687

Marriage Record #2 ^[4]

Name Johann Adam Seippell

Spouse's Name Anna Eva Kirchner

Event Date 15 Oct 1748

Event Place Evangelisch, Kaichen, Oberhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt

Spouse's Father's Name Johann Henrich Kirchner

Adam and his wife Eva had at least five known children. Ancestry has birth records for all five children, but none include a date or place. I've listed them below so additional research can be done before we create profiles for them.

Birth Record for son Johann Niclas Seippell ^[5]

There are probably obvious spelling errors in this record.

Name: Anna Eva Kirchner

Gender: Female

Spouse: Johann Adam Seippell

Child: Johann Niclas Seippell

Birth Record for daughter Eva Maria Seippell ^[6]

Name: Anna Eva Kirchner

Gender: Female

Spouse: Johann Adam Seippell

Child: Eva Maria Seippell

In addition to Anna Catharina, Nikolaus, and Eva Maria, Adam and Eva Seibel had two more children: Johann and Adam Jr. Adam Sr. died in Germany before 1766. Eva decided to immigrate to Russia with her children and brother's family.

Eva is listed in the Kulberg Reports under the name Eva Selb. ^[7] I believe that surname is either misspelled, modified, or abbreviated from the original form of Seibel. She was already a widow when she and her children embarked on their journey to Russia. She is the one who probably perished on the journey to to Volga, not her husband, who had died in Germany before the family left that country. But when identifying orphans, Russian record keepers apparently used their father's name, not their mother's name or the name of the most recently living parent.

As you can see from the Anna Katharina's birth record, her mother Eva's last name at birth was Kirchner. In the 1767 Grimm census, her children are listed immediately following immigrant Peter Kirchner. ^[8] Eva Seibel and Peter Kirchner were from the same town in Germany, Kaichen.^[8] Peter and Eva were most likely siblings, immigrating together to Russia. Eva may have felt safer traveling with her brother and his wife, along with other people from the Friedberg area of what is now Germany. The entry for Eva and her children looks like this:

Selb, Eva. Lutheran from Friedberg, document number 2389, widow, children: Johann, 18; Adam, 16; Nicolaus, 13; Catharina, 20; and Eva, 9.^[7]

Listed three names above hers in the Kulberg Reports is her brother:

Kirchner, Peter, Lutheran farmer from Friedberg, document 2386, his wife Anna, daughter Anna, 5.^[7]

Also listed on the two open pages, 166-167, of the Kulberg Reports in close proximity to Eva's name are 11 other families who ended up in Grimm, Russia. These families include:^[7]

• Just Erdmann
• Johann Batz
• Jakob Kunau
• Peter Kirchner
• Eva Selb
• Johann Balzer
• Andreas Hess
• Emanuel Schneider
• Johannes Lipp
• Valentin Reich

I'm including a copy of the 1767 Grimm census to show that her two youngest children, Nicholas and Eva, were considered orphans at the time of the census. I believe that indicates that Eva did not survive the journey to Grimm.

1767 Grimm Census ^[8]

Family # 7

Head of the Household Nikolaus Heimbuch, age 27, Lutheran farmer from Darmstadt

Wife Katharina [Seibel] Heimbuch, age 19

Also living with Nikolaus Heimbuch, family #7

Child #1 Nicholas Seibel, age 13, orphan, Lutheran farmer from Friedberg

Child #2 Eva Seibel, age 11, orphan

Note Deceased father was Adam Seibel

You can see from this entry that the "family" listed after Nikolaus and Katharina Heimbuch were orphans Nicholas Seibel, age 13, and Eva Seibel, age 11. These names and ages are in sync with the names in the Kulberg Reports on page 166. ^[7] Older brothers Johann and Adam were young enough and strong enough to survive the journey, but if they did, they did not settle in Grimm. The fact that the two youngest children were called orphans suggests that they had no living parents. This means that although their mother Anna Eva Seibel made the journey to the Volga colonies as a widow with children, she did not survive. Despite the fact that father Adam died in Germany and did not immigrate to Russia, he is the parent listed in the 1767 Grimm census.

Sources

1. ↑ Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. Anna Catharina Seippell, born 13 September 1749 to Johann Adam Seippell and Anna Eva Kirchner. Ancestry.com. Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
2. ↑ Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. Johann Adam Seipel, born 03 February 1727 in Pfungstadt, Hessen, Germany, to J. Ludwig Seipel and Anna Margaretha. See: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Kaichen,+Niddatal,+Germany/64319+Pfungstadt,+Germany/@50.0596175,8.2329177,9z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x47bd1b59a2a154ef:0x40e1b7ca943cc1bf!2m2!1d8.8380511!2d50.2545124!1m5!1m1!1s0x47bd7bc19aa5d591:0xacfa8db8ce1b3cf6!2m2!1d8.6035362!2d49.8028671!4e1.
3. ↑ Germany, Marriages, 1558-1929. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. Anna Eva Kirchner and Johann Adam Seippell, married 15 October 1748 in Kaichen, Oberhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt. Ancestry.com. Germany, Select Marriages, 1558-1929 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
4. ↑ "Deutschland Heiraten, 1558-1929," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J4GC-LZB : 11 February 2018), Johann Adam Seippell and Anna Eva Kirchner, 15 Oct 1748; citing Evangelisch, Kaichen, Oberhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt; FHL microfilm 1,269,687.
5. ↑ Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. Johann Niklaus Seippell, parents Anna Eva Kirchner and Johann Adam Seippell. Ancestry.com. Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
6. ↑ Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. Eva Maria Seippell, daughter of Johann Adam Seippell and Anna Eva Kirchner. Ancestry.com. Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4} Pleve, Igor. List of Colonists to Russia in 1766, "Reports by Ivan Kulberg," Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation, Saratov State Technical University; Published in Saratov, Russia 2010; page 166.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767, Band 2, Herausgegeben von Alfred Eisfeld under Mitarbeit von Sabine Eichwald, Published by the Nordost-Instsitut - 38085 Göttingen, 2005; page 74, family #7, Nikolaus Heimbuch family.