Casimir Certellet, a farmer (Agriculteur, age 45), his unnamed wife, a seamstress (Couturière, age 37), and daughter Margarete (age 18) are recorded on a list of French colonists dated September 1764.
Casimir Certele [sic], a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his wife Maria Louise settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen on 28 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 5 along with their orphaned granddaughter Maria Angelika Mounie [Meunier] (age 12) whose mother was their daughter. [See Meunier Family.]
The 1764 list of colonists records that Casimir Certellet came from the French region of Champagne, his wife from the region of Paris, and the granddaughter from the French region of Brie. The 1767 census records that Casimir Certele came from the city of Paris in France.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas & Georg Rauschenbach. Die "Berufer": Abenteurer der Aufklärung in Katharinas II. Kolonisierungsprojekt (Moscow, 2019): 41.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 442.
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