Konrad Herel [sic], a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Diana under the command of Skipper Markus Draguhn.
Conrad Hirl [sic] is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
He arrived in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 19 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 127.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Herel came from the German region of Bayern (Bavaria). The 1767 census records that Konrad Herel came from the village of Busendorf in Bayern (Bavaria).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Herl family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 705.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 241.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5634.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2755.
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