Johann Georg (Gabel) Happel (abt. 1774)

Born about 1774 in Grimm, Saratov, Russia

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Biography

Georg (Gabel) Happel was a Volga German.

Georg (Gabel) Happel has German Roots.

Family #139 in the 1775 Grimm census.
Family #104 in the 1798 Grimm census.

Johann Georg Gabel/Happel was born about 1774 in Grimm, Russia, to parents Johannes Gabel and Anna Katarina (Unknown) Gabel. He is first listed in the 1775 census when he was just 9 months old.

1775 Grimm Census ^[1]

Family # 139

Head of the Household Johann Gapel [Happel?] [sic], age 42

Wife Anna Katharina Gapel/Gable, age 28

Child #1 Johannes Gapel/Gable, age 6 years 6 months

Child #2 Georg Christophel [sic] Gapel/Gable, age 3

Child #3 Johann Georg Gapel/Gable, age 9 months

By 1797 he had married Elisabeth Margaretha Felde and the couple had one child, daughter Katharina Gapel/Happel.

1798 Grimm Census ^[2]

See Child #3.

Family # 104

Head of the Household Johannes Gapel [Happel?], age 66

Wife Johanna Schultz Gapel [Happel?] from Sarepta, age 40, second wife

Child #1 Louisa Gabel/Gapel/Happel, age 5, daughter of Johanna Schultz, born out of wedlock

Child #2 Johannes Gapel [Happel?], age 29

Wife of Child #2 Maria Barbara Jäger Gapel [Happel?], age 29, from Dietel

Grandchild #1 Georg Gapel [Happel?], age 7

Child #3 Johann Georg Gapel [Happel?], age 25

Wife of Child #2 Elizabeta [sic] Felde Gapel [Happel?], age 24

Grandchild #2 Katharina Gapel [Happel?], age 6 months

He and his wife were most likely the parents of Johann Adam Happel, born in 1804, who is designated as a nephew of his brother Johannes Happel in the 1834 census. The fact that Johann Adam Happel was listed as living in his uncle's family implies that either his parents had moved to another village and he stayed behind, or that his parents were deceased.

Johann Georg Happel and Elisabeth Margaretha Felde are not listed in the 1834 census, ^[3] so clearly, being deceased was a distinct possibility. It's also possible that only his father had passed away, and that his mother remarried and was living in a different family at the time of the 1834 census. Without church records to verify marriages and deaths, none of these possibilities can be confirmed or disproved.

Sources

1. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Census of the German Colony on the Volga, Lesnoy Karamysh, also known as Grimm; Published by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA; Published date: 1995; family #139 in the 1775 census.
2. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Census of the German Colony on the Volga, Lesnoy Karamysh, also known as Grimm; Published by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA; Published date: 1995; family #104 in the 1798 census.
3. ↑ 1834 Census of Grimm in the District of Saratov, Russia, dated 2 February 1835; Translated by Brent Mai, Concordia University, Portland, Oregon; Published by Dynasty Publishing, Beaverton, OR, USA; Published 2011; page 39, family #126 and page 83, Family #297.