There are two Hertzberger families that arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a koff named Alette under the command of Skipper Wybe Hendricks. Their relationship to each other, if any, requires further research.
(1) Johannes Hertzberg [sic] from Niederaller near Marburg & Maria Gertraud Bock from Niederaller were married 17 May 1766 in the City Lutheran Church of Friedberg.
Johann Hertzberger, a farmer, and his wife Gertrude arrived in Oranienbaum.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dehler on 26 June 1767. Gertrude died and Johann remarried to Anna Katharina, the widow of Anton Trumm.
They are recorded on the 1767 census of Dehler in Household No. 33 along with Trumm's son Johann Wilhelm Trumm.
(2) Widow Barbara Hertzberger and her children (Maria, age 22; Jakob, age 15) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Widow Barbara Schneider is recorded on the 1767 census of Dehler in Household No. 40 along with a son Johann Georg [sic] (age 17). She is believed to be the above noted Barbara Hertzenberger, and Johann Georg is believed to be her son Jakob.
Jakob Hertzberger (age 46) from Dehler is recorded on the 1798 census of Brabander in Household No. Bn66.
The death of Jakob Hertzberger in 1803 is recorded on the 1811 census of Brabander in Household No. 67.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that both of these Hertzberger families came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census of Dehler records that Johann Hertzberger came from the German village of Hilst in the region of Kurmainz. The 1767 census of Dehler records that the widow Barbara Schneider came from the German region of Kurmainz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Brabander Census (Household No. 67).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 452.
- 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): Bn66.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #345.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 273, 275.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3527, #3528.
Brent Mai