Hertling (Zürich)*
Andreas Hertling, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Andreas Hertling, his wife Catharina, and daughter Elisabeth (age 1) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Elisabeth died en route.
Andreas Hertling is recorded as a widower on the 1798 census of Volga German colony of Zürich in Household No. Zr38.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Hertling came from the German region of Braunfels. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Völkersheim.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Zr38.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5542.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3522-3524.
Brent Mai