Elisabeth Bortl [Bork] (age 11) is recorded on the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 37 along with her stepfather Nikolaus Spahn.
Anna Elisabeth Mertz née Bork (age 38) from Nieder-Monjou and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Rohleder in Household No. Rh01.
The 1767 census does not record from where Elisabeth Bortl [sic] came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Bortl family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Rh01.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 193.
Brent Mai