Christian Ertler [sic], a carpenter, his wife Margaretha, and daughters (Louisa, age 18; Dorothea, age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.
Christian Hertel, his wife Anna Maria, and daughters (Louissa [sic] Elisabeth, age 18; Louissa [sic], age 14) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Oranienbaum in 1767 along with a note that both Christian and Anna Maria died in route.
It is not known in which colony the surviving daughters settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Ertler [sic] came from the German region of Dessau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hertel family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4307.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5415-5418.
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