Elias Ehrhardt [sic], a joiner [Tischler], his wife Elisabeth, and children (Valentin, age 10¼; Nikolaus, age 8; Eva, age 5¼; Konrad, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Johann Elias Erchardt [sic], his wife Elisabeth, and children (Valentin, age 9; Johann Nicolaus, age 7, Margaretha, age 5; Johann Conrad, age 1) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Widower Elias Herget, a carpenter (Tischler), and his children (Valentin, age 12; Nikolaus, 10; Eva, age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. 21. They had settled there on 23 July 1767.
(1) Valentin Herget and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. Or54. His son is believed to be recorded there in Household No. Or71.
Andreas Herget is recorded on the 1834 Orlovskaya in Household No. 156.
(2) In 1782, Nikolaus Herget moved from Orlosvkaya to Susannental.
In 1793, Nikolaus Herget and his family moved from Meinhard to Susannental.
Nikolaus Herget from Meinhard and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Susannental in Household No. Ss01.
The death of Nikolaus Herget in 1818 is recorded on the 1834 census of Susannental in Household No. 31.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Elias Ehrhardt came from the German region of Fulda. The 1767 census records that Elias Herget came from the German village of Hellborn.
- 1834 Orlovskaya Census (Household No. 156).
- 1834 Susannental Census (Household No. 31).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 677.
- 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): Or54, Or71, Ss01, Mv1675, Mv2148.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 316.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5379.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6893-6898.
Brent Mai