Joseph Naturelle was born in approximately 1779 in Montpillier, France.
He served as a soldier in the 134th Infantry Regiment of Napoleon's army. He fought against and was captured by the Russians.
Milovidov records that as of 1814, he had no surviving relatives.
He was resettled in the Volga German colony of Hildmann.
He appears on the 1834 Hildmann Census in Household No. 68 where his death is indicated but a date is not recorded.
Milovidov records that Joseph Naturelle came from the French town of Montpillier where he had been a merchant.
There are no known surviving male descendants of this Naturelle family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Hildmann Census (Household No. 68).
- Belousov, S.V. "Prisoners of war of Napoleon's army in the Volga region: the arrangement, content, relationships with the local population." Bulletin of the Samara State University, No. 1 (Samara, Russia: Samara State University, 2006): 48-55.
- Milovidov, B. P. "Prisoners of War of the Napoleonic Army in the Saratov Colonies in 1813-1820: New Documents." (p. 46, #86)
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