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 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
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.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 552.
- 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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