An article by Wilhelm Funk records the following going to Russia:
Albrecht Ludwig Friedrich Borel from Erlang, & Eva Elisab. Hübner from Zwickershausen, both Lutheran, were married on 25 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church in Wöhrd.
Albrecht [Friedrich] Borell, his wife Elisabeth, and stepdaughter Elisabeth (whose surname is not recorded) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Albrecht Borell, his wife Elisabeth, and [step-]daughter Elisabeth [surname not recorded] (age 9) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Beauregard on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on an appendix to the 1767 census in Household No. 11 along with a note indicating that they relocated to the colony of Schaffhausen in 1768.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Albrecht Borell was a farmer from the German region of Bayreuth. The 1767 census records that Albrecht Friedrich Borell was a weaver (Weber) from the German village of Erlangen.
There are no known surviving male descendants of this Borell family among the Volga German colonies.
- Funk, Wilhelm. "Deutsche a Is russische Colonisten: ausgezogen aus dem Wöhrder Traubuch 1766/67." Blätter für fränkische Familienkunde, 1:3 (1926): 101-107.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): #774.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 164.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4629.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5509-5511.
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