Anton Etzel, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Katharina, age 14; Burghard, age 12; Simon, age 4; Katharina, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
Widower Anton Etzel, a farmer, and his children (Katharina, age 17; Burgardt, age 13) are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 55. They had settled in Pfeifer on 20 August 1767.
Anton Etzel, his [new] wife, daughter, and daughter's family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Pf73.
Burgardt Etzel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf37.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anton Etzel came from the German region of Franken (Franconia). The 1767 census records that Anton Etzel came from the German village of Wertheim in the region of Franken (Franconia).
- 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): 637.
- 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): Pf37, Pf73.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 391.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5114.
Brent Mai