Anna Maria Bartel, widow of Johannes Bartel, and her son Johann (age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Стрельна (Strelna - a village near St. Petersburg) under the command of Midshipman Login Sornev.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767.
Anna Maria remarried to Johannes Milling [Milgenk], but she also died. Surviving son, Johannes Bartel (age 6), is recorded in Norka on the 1767 census in Household No. 118.
Johannes [Bartel] is recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 6 along with his [step-]father Johannes Milgeig [sic].
Johannes Bartel [errantly recorded as Barthuly] is recorded on the 1798 census in Household No. Nr166.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anna Maria Bartel came from the German region of Mainz.
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 6).
- 1811 Norka Census (Household No. 166).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 622.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Nr166.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 260.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4994.
Brent Mai