Ertel (Schäfer)
Johann Ertel from Württemberg migrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Flensburg on 22 May 1762. He swore allegiance to King Friedrich of Denmark on 4 Jun 1762.
Johann Ertel, an [unnamed] wife, and an [unnamed] child were dismissed from the Danish colonies on 10 June 1763. They joined the migration to Russia.
Johannes Knaub, a farmer, his [new] wife Anna Elisabeth, his son by his first wife Johann Heinrich (age 6), and stepchildren (Johann Peter [Ertel], age 5; Philippina Margaretha [Ertel], age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schäfer in Household No. 46. [See Knaub Family.] They had arrived in Schäfer on 25 May 1767.
Peter Ertel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schäfer in Household No. Sf24.
The 1767 census records that Anna Elisabeth Ertel came from the German region of Weimar.
The surname of this family is recorded on various documents as Etler, Edler, Ertler, Erttel, as well as Ertel.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-356.
- 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): Sf24.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 101.
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