Valentin Zöll [sic], his wife Magdalena, and daughters (Anna, age 17; Eva, age 13, Elisabeth, age 12; Maria, age 9; Anna, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.
Valentin San [sic], his wife Eva Magdalena, and daughters (Anna Martha, age 17; Eva Christina, age 16; Anna Elisa., age 14; Maria Elis., age 10; Anna Elisa., age 2½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Valentin Saner, a farmer, his wife Magdalena, and daughters (Anna, age 18; Christina, age 15; Elisabeth, age 12; Maria, age 9; Elsa, age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. 26. They had settled there on 23 July 1767.
The 1767 census records that Valentin Saner came from the German village of Harmuthsachsen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 317.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #6985.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8693-8699.
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