Johann Georg Bartel, a farmer, his wife Maria Katharina, and children (Johann Peter, age 16; Johann Georg, age 12; Johann Christoph, age 5; Anna Maria, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Diederika (Lady Diederika) under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Lunau.
Johann Georg Walter [sic], a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Julianna, and children (Peter, age 16; Georg, age 12; Anna, age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Walter in Household No. 72. They had settled there on 25 August 1767.
Johann Heinrich Bartel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt024.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Georg Bartel came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Walter [sic] came from the German village of Ische in the region of Hessen-Darmstadt.
- 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): 756.
- 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): Wt024.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 311.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6054.
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