Johannes Kammerzell (abt. 1718 - abt. 1766)

Born about 9 May 1718 in Maiersbach, Gersfeld Rhön, Cassel, Hessen-Nassau, Preussen

Descendants

Died about 1766 at about age 47 in Oranienbaum, Russia

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Biography

Hanz Kammerzell was a Volga German.

Hanz Kammerzell has German Roots.

Johannes Kammerzell embarked on his journey to Russia with his family, including his wife Dorothea, and children Johannes, Valentin, Elisabeth, and Amalia.

Travel Document #6413 in the Kulberg Reports.
Family #112a in the 1767 Frank census.

Kulberg Reports ^[1]

Travel Document # 6413

Head of the Household Hanz Kammerzell, Lutheran, farmer from Werder

Travel Details Departed Luebeck on Luebeck's ship, Skipper Reders, arrived in Russia on 14 September 1766

Wife Dorothea Kammerzell

Child #1 Johannes Kammerzell, age 16

Child #2 Valentin Kammerzell, age 14

Child #3 Elisabeth Kammerzell, age 21

Child #4 Amalia Kammerzell, age 19

In the 1767 Frank census, Johannes and Valentin's father was identified as Johannes, deceased. His mother and sister Elisabeth were also not named, and it's possible that they, too, were deceased. This is specifically true for his mother, since he was identified as an orphan in the 1767 census. Elisabeth was 21 to 22 years old in 1767, so it's possible she married in Oranienbaum or soon after the colonists arrived in Frank and is listed in another family. Sister Amalia married Johann Martin Gutmann. Her brothers Johannes and Valentin were living with her and her husband at the time of the 1767 census on 16 May 1767.

1767 Frank Census ^[2]

Family # 112a

Head of the Household Johannes Kammerzel, age 18, Lutheran farmer from Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter, Hirschfeld, orphan, lived in the household of Johann Martin Gutmann, #112

Brother Valentin Kammerzel, age 12, orphan, lived in the household of Johann Martin Gutmann, #112

Two distant cousins, descendants of Heinrich Kämmerzell of Gersfeld and his wife Margaretha Mülig of Sparbrod, migrated to the Volga German colonies in 1766.

Heinrich Kämmerzell & Margaretha Mülig A. Michel Kämmerzell (1608-1686) & Barbara Hau (1624-1596) 1. Balthasar Kämmerzell (1655-1728) & Anna Möller (1651-1729) a. Martin Kämmerzell (1688-1747) & Elisabetha Lediger (1687-1762) i. Johannes Kammerzell (1718-1766?) & Dorothea Schleicher (1714-1766?) B. Marx Kämmerzell (1617-1678) & Barbara Feuerstein (1616-1681) 1. Hans Kämmerzell (1647-1694) & Maria Cordula Ebert (1652-1721) a. Heinrich Kämmerzell (1686-1748) & Susanna Heitzenröder (1694-1757) i. Adam Georg Kämmerzell (1723-?) & Dorothea Burkhardt (1730-1766?)

These two cousins (Johannes & Adam Georg Kämmerzell) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Katharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.

(1) Johannes Kammerzell, son of Martin Kammerzell & Elisabetha Lediger, was born 9 May 1718 in Maiersbach. He married Dorothea Schleicher, daughter of Johannes Schleicher & Elisabeth Müller, who had been born 14 April 1714 in Kippelbach.

The births of the children of Johannes Kammerzell & Dorothea Schleicher are recorded in the parish register of Gersfeld: (1) Elisabetha, born 22 August 1743 in Maiersbach; (2) Amalia, born 2 July 1746 in Maiersbach, died 10 July 1746; (3) Amalia, born 3 November 1747 in Maiersbach; (4) unnamed child, stillborn 9 November 1750 in Maiersbach; (5) Johannes, born 22 October 1751 in Gersfeld; and (6) Johann Valentin, born 3 December 1754 in Gersfeld.

Hans Kammerzell, a farmer, his wife Dorothea, and children (Elisabeth, age 21; [a] Amalia, age 19; [b] Johannes, age 16; [c] Valentin, age 12) arrived in Oranienbaum.

Hanns Cammerzell [sic], his wife Dorothea, and children (Elisabeth, age 22; Amalia, age 19; Johannes, age 16; Valentin, age 12) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that wife Dorothea died en route. Father Johannes Kammerzell also died before arriving in the Volga German colonies.

[a] Amalia Kammerzell married Johann Martin Guttmann [See Guttmann Family] who had arrived with them in Oranienbaum. Johann Martin Guttmann, a farmer, his [new] wife Amalia [Kammerzell], and their son Johann Heinrich (age 2-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Frank in Household No. 112. They had arrived in Frank on 1 September 1767.

[b] Johannes Kammerzell is recorded on the 1767 census of Frank in Household No. 112 along with his sister Amalia and brother-in-law Johann Martin Guttmann.

Johann Kammerzell and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Frank in Household No. Fk103.

[c] Valentin Kammerzell is also recorded on the 1767 census of Frank in Household No. 112 along with his sister Amalia and brother-in-law Johann Martin Guttmann.

Johann Valentin Kammerzell and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Frank in Household No. Fk068.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Hans Kammerzell came from the German region of Werder [Wehrda?].^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ 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 405, Hanz Kammerzell family.
2. ↑ 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga, Volume 1, transcribed and edited by Brent Alan Mai, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, published 1999; page 438, family #112a, Johannes Kammerzel family.
3. ↑ Kammerzell|VGI|Mai