Spelling Variations
Ertel (Dinkel)
Эртель (Dinkel)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Franz Ertel, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 3 June 1766 aboard the galliot Adler under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dinkel on 12 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 10 along with his stepson Paul Müller.
The 1767 census records that Franz Ertel came from the German village of Dinkelscherben in the district of Schwaben (Swabia).
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 300.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #678.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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