Michael
Reichel
Born about in Wittenberg, Meisenheim, Germany
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Christina (Moor) Kirchner
— married
[date unknown] in Bauer, Saratov, Russia
Husband of
Rosina (Unknown) Reichel
— married
before 1755 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Henrietta (Reichel) Stieben, Jakob Reichel, Anton Reichel, Elisabeth Reichel, Philipp Reichel, Anton Reichel and Heinrich Reichel
Died about
at about age 58
in Bauer, Saratov, Russia
Profile last modified
| Created 16 Feb 2017
This page has been accessed 1,001 times.
Biography
Michael Reichel was a Volga German.
Michael Reichel has German Roots.
Family #50 in the 1766 Bauer census.
Michael Reichel first appears in the 1766 Bauer census found in Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767, Band 1, page 128, family #50. It states he was Lutheran, a farmer from Wittenberg, Meisenheim. Though online birth records have been searched, I have not yet found a birth record for him. Reichel is not a popular surname, and the only Michaels I've found thus far are Catholic -- not a match for the Michael Reichel in this profile.
Michael was married to a woman named Rosina, eight years his junior. When they arrived in Bauer, they had three childreh:
- Haneta, born 1755
- Jakob, born 1758
- Anton, born 1766
Son Anton may have been born in Oranienbaum, Russia prior to the journey to the Volga region, or he may have been one of the first German children born in Bauer.
According to the 1798 Bauer census, Michael Reichel had died, but his second wife Christina Moor was still living and had remarried to a man named Gottfried Kirchner. Living with the family at that time were four of Michael's children named as Kirchner's step-children. Michael must have passed away no later than two years after his youngest child's birth, because Christina Moor married a second time, Ulrich Kummersheimer from Kautz and they had three children, the eldest who was 7 years old. Michael Reichel probably died around 1789.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767, Band 1, Published by Der Goettinger Arbeitskreis - 37085 Goettingen, 1999; page 128, family 50, Jacob Reichel, age 8.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga, Volume 1; Published by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, Nebraska; Printed in 1999, 2005; page 283, family #Br22.
Is Michael your ancestor? Please don't go away!
Login to collaborate or comment, or
contact
the profile manager, or
ask our community of genealogists a question.
Login to collaborate or comment, or contact
the profile manager, or ask our community of genealogists a question.
Sponsored Search by Ancestry.com
DNA
No known carriers of Michael's DNA have taken a DNA test.
No known carriers of Michael's DNA have taken a DNA test.
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Featured National Park champion connections: Michael is 21 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 27 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 23 degrees from George Catlin, 23 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 28 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 24 degrees from George Grinnell, 32 degrees from Anton Kröller, 24 degrees from Stephen Mather, 30 degrees from Kara McKean, 24 degrees from John Muir, 27 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 32 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
Categories: Grimm | German Roots
...
(2) Michael Reichel, went to Astracan [the region in which the Volga German colonies were located at the time] in 1765. His wife is from Dorn-Dürkheim. He has a daughter and a son.
Michael Reichel, a farmer, his wife Rosina, and children (Hanetta, age 11; Jakob, age 8; Anton, age ½) settled in the Volga German colony of Bauer on 1 March 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 50 along with Christoph Fischer (age 20), a single farmer. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Reichel and Fischer families.
In 1789, Johann Reichel moved from Bauer to Grimm.
The 1767 census records that the Reichel family came from the German village of Meißenheim [sic] in Württemberg.
Quelle: Parish register of Mettenheim (LDS Film No. 1442055).