Leonhard Bartel, a tailor (Schneider), 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.
Leonhardt Bartel is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Paulskaya on 23 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 89.
At some point, Leonhard moved to Kind. In 1777, Johann Bartel moved from Kind to Schaffhausen.
The death of Leonhard Bartel in 1817 is recorded on the 1834 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. 50.
The death of Heinrich Jakob Bartel [recorded as Barder] in 1854 is recorded on the 1857 census of Rosendamm in Household No. 8. There are no known surviving male lines of this family in Rosendamm.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Leonhard Bartel came from the German region of Ansbach while the 1767 census records that Johann Leonhard Bartel came from the German village of Dengkofen.
- 1834 Schaffhausen Census (Households No. 35, 50, 51).
- 1857 Rosendamm Census (Household No. 8).
- 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): 554.
- 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): Sh21, Mv1281.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 351.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4326.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5078.
Brent Mai