Ludwig Bartel, a cobbler, and his wife Barbara arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 3 June 1766 aboard the galliot Alder under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
Ludwig Bartel, a farmer, is recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. 67 along with a note that his wife had died there on 13 October 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Ludwig Bartel came from the German village of Münden. The 1767 census records that Ludwig Bartel came from the German village of Minden in the Hannover region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Bartel family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 219.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #745.
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