Els (Unknown)*

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Els (Unknown)*

Gels (Unknown)*

Эльзъ (Unknown)*

Гельзъ (Unknown)*

Settled in the Following Colonies:

Unknown Colony

Discussion & Documentation:

Widow Anna Els [sic] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.

Catharina Gels [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony she settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anna Els came from the German region of Hessen.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Els/Gels family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources:

- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4275.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5971.

Contributor(s) to this page:

Brent Mai

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Volga Colonies