Schertz*
Johann Schertz, a single miller, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.
Joh. Gottlob [sic] Schertz is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Gottlieb Schertz, a single butcher (Fleischer), settled in the Volga German colony of Bettinger on 3 August 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 32.
Widower Gottlieb Schertz, his daughter, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. Sh29.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schertz came from the German region of Sachsen. The 1767 census records that Johann Gottlieb Schertz came from the German village of Leppin.
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): Sh29.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 137.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4362.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5385.
Brent Mai