Andreas Egeler [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 9; Anna, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Andreas Egeler [sic], his wife Anna, and children (Johannes, age 9; Maria, age 6) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that both parents died in route.
Orphan Johannes Egler (age 10) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 24 along with the Johann Kaspar Koppel family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Egler and Koppel families.
In 1783, Johannes Egler and his family moved from Kind to Biberstein.
Johannes Egler and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Biberstein in Household No. Bb18 along with a note that he, his wife, and youngest son are in Ufa.
Heinrich Ludwig Egler and his family moved from Biberstein to Rosendamm in 1853.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that the Egler family came from the German region of Hanau.
[Some translations have recorded this surname as Eichler, Jägler, and Eckler.]
- 1834 Biberstein Census (Household No. 47).
- 1857 Biberstein Census (Household No. 125).
- 1857 Rosendamm Census (Household No. 22).
- 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): Bb18, Mv1294.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 356.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5457.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3092-3095.
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