Ertel (Volmer)
Thadeus Örtle (age 18), a single surgeon (Chirurgus), is recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. He had arrived in Worms on 9 September 1765.
Thaddäus Ertel, a surgeon (Feldscher), and his wife Anna Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Volmer on 18 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 15.
In 1796, Johann Georg Ertel moved from Volmer to Neu-Kolonie.
Nikolaus Erdle from Kamenka and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Josefstal in Household No. 49.
The 1765 Worms list records that Thadeus Örtle came from the German village of Rottenburg am Neckar. The 1767 census records that Thaddäus Ertel came from the German village of Rothenburg.
- 1834 Volmer Census (Household No. 9).
- 1857 Josefstal Census (Household No. 49).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 126 (#320).
- 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): Nk05, Vm27, Vm32, Mv2944.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 288.
Brent Mai