Johann Konrad Kerbel (1854 - 1910)

Born 9 Oct 1854 in Grimm, Saratov, Russia

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Died 20 Jan 1910 at age 55 in Grimm, Saratov, Russia

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Biography

Johann Konrad Kerbel was a Volga German.

Johann Konrad Kerbel has German Roots.

Family #25 in the 1857 Grimm census.

Birth Date and Place

• 9 October 1854
• Grimm, Saratov, Russia

Parents

• Johann Nikolaus Kerbel

Marriage

• Anna Margaretha Brester

Children

• Charlotte (Kerbel) Kaiser, born 1882
• Eva Katarina (Kerbel Felde) Wischnewski, born 1887
• Anna Margaretha Kerbel, born 1891
• Elisabeth Kerbel, born 1893
• Jakob Kerbel, born 1895
• Karl Kerbel, born 1899

NOTE - removed Georg Jacob Kerbel, born 1885 as child. Per the 1897 census he is actually the child of Johann Friedrich from family #570 line 13.

Death Date and Place

• 20 January 1910
• Grimm, Saratov, Russia

Johann Konrad Kerbel was born 09 October 1854 in Grimm, Russia, to Johann Nikolaus Kerbel and as as yet to be identified mother. ^[1]

1857 Grimm Census ^[2]

Family # 25

Head of the Household Konrad Kerbel, age 57 in 1850, deceased 1851

Wife Katharina Louisa Kerbel, age 63

Child #1 Philipp Jakob Kerbel, age 34

Wife of Child #1 Eva Katharina Kerbel, age 34

Grandchild #1 Heinrich Kerbel, age 12

Grandchild #2 Johann Jakob Kerbel, age 10

Grandchild #3 Christina Barbara Kerbel, age 8

Grandchild #4 Christian Jakob Kerbel, age 7

Grandchild #5 Johann Konrad Kerbel, age 2

Grandchild #6 Heinrich Jakob Kerbel, age 1

Child #2 Nikolaus Kerbel, age 25 in 1850, deceased 1853

Grandchild #7 Katharina Elisabeth Kerbel, age 9

Grandchild #8 Johann Konrad Kerbel, age 4

Child #3 Johann Jakob Kerbel, age 29

Wife of Child #3 Charlotta Kerbel, age 24

Grandchild #9 Jakob Kerbel, age 7 years 3 months

His mother died between the 1854 and 1857 censuses when Johann Konrad was still a young child.^[2] Because of the timing of his mother's death, there is a chance she succumbed to cholera. The third cholera pandemic swept across Russia from 1846 to 1860, killing more than 1 million Russians. ^[3]

His father also died in that same time frame in 1853, the same year that Johann Konrad was born.^[2] It is possible he never remembered his father, or his father died before his birth. He and his older sister Katharine Elisabeth lived with their grandmother Katharina Louisa Kerbel and were likely cared for by her and their two aunts and uncles who all lived in the same household.^[2]

Konrad Kerbel was still alive in 1897,^[1] so he and his immediate family should appear in the 1897 census. They do not. Possible explanations include:

1. The Konrad Kerbel family was somehow omitted from the census.
2. The family was visiting relatives in another village and not counted in the Grimm census, possibly not counted in any other census either, since they wouldn't have been residents of any other village.
3. The family actually lived in a different village and would have been recorded in that village's 1897 census.
4. While father Konrad Kerbel was serving in the military, his family lived with his in-laws, another family, etc., and their surname wasn't clearly identified as being Kerbel. Furthermore, they were not indexed as Kerbels in the 1897 Grimm census.
5. His children, living with other family members, were mistaken as belonging to different parents.
6. Konrad and his family immigrated to the United States or South America.

For a discussion about the family which should have be listed there, see his daughter's profile, Charlotte Kerbel Kaiser.

Research Notes

Johann Konrad's mother is probably included on the 1834 census, but since she is still a child then and not yet connected to the Kerbels, we can't identify her. By the time of the 1857 census, she had married Nikolaus, had two children, and then died. There doesn't seem to be a way to capture her name through census records.

In fact, Konrad's father Nikolaus had died, too, before the 1857 census, in 1853. His parents' deaths may have been related to the third Asiatic cholera pandemic that swept across Russia from 1850 to 1860, killing more than 1 million Russians. ^[4]

His mother's death may have been from the Asiatic cholera pandemic, but it also may have been directly related to his birth. Konrad definitely grew up without a father, and perhaps without a mother as well. The Kerbel family was large, and he was most likely raised by his aunts and uncles, along with his grandmother.

Some records show Konrad's parents as Philipp and Anna Regina Kerbel, but this is incorrect. Their son, also named Konrad, was born in 1837, while the Konrad of this profile was born in 1854. These two men were first cousins once removed.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Personal records in the files of descendant Alexander Brester, Beryozovka, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} 1857 Census of Grimm in the District of Saratov, Russia, dated 5 November 1857; Translated by Brent Mai, Concordia University, Portland, Oregon; Published by Dynasty Publishing, Beaverton, OR, USA; Published 2005; page 12, family #25, Konrad Kerbel family.
3. ↑ J. N. Hays (2005). Epidemics and pandemics: their impacts on human history. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-658-9. Retrieved 29 March 2011. Via Wikipedia List of epidemics, Russia, 1850-1860, third cholera pandemic, 1,000,000 deaths. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics.
4. ↑ J. N. Hays (2005). Epidemics and pandemics: their impacts on human history. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-658-9. Retrieved 29 March 2011. Via Wikipedia List of epidemics, Russia, 1850-1860, third cholera pandemic, 1,000,000 deaths. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics.