Friedrich Metz, a farmer, his wife Maria Katharina, and son Johannes (age 12) settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 28 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 21.
The 1767 census records that Friedrich Metz came from the German village of Königshofen in Nassau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Metz family among the Volga German colonies.
Thomas Kessler, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Joseph, age 13; Franziska, age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kamenka in Household No. 9. They had settled there on 28 April 1766.
The children of Joseph Kesler are recorded on the 1798 census of Kamenka in Household No. Km028.
Peter Kesler, son of Joseph Kesler, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kamenka in Household No. 85 along with a note that they had relocated to the colony of Luzern.
Heinrich Gorgie, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 June 1766 aboard the ship Die Vergelte Weintraube under the command of Skipper Anderson.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Keller on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 41.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Gorgie came from the German village of Königshofen in Nassau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Count Johannes of Nassau-Idstein settled Catholic Walloons from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège in several areas including Niedernhausen, Königshofen, and Engenhahn. He allowed these settlers to keep their Catholic faith even though they were in a Protestant territory. Today, this territory is in Hessen, and Königshofen is part of a larger administrative unit headquartered in Niedernhausen.
There are two Thomas families that settled in the Volga German colony of Keller on 22 May 1767.
(1) Heinrich Thomas, a farmer, and his wife Maria Eva, are recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 52.
(2) Konrad Thomas (age 5) and his widowed mother, Rosina - who had remarried Johann Georg Mühlhaus - are recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 54.
Anna Maria Degass, her unnamed husband, and their son, Johannes, settled in the Volga German colony of Keller on 12 May 1767. The unnamed husband died on 14 November 1767. The widowed Anna Maria and her son are recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 67.
The 1767 census records that the Degass family came from the German village of Bissersheim in Kurmainz.
Widow Anna Block, whose husband had been a farmer, and her son Johann [Martin] (age 25) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Reders.
Widow Cunigunda Block and her son Johann Martin (age 25) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Widow Anna Kunigunde Block and her son Martin (age 25) settled in the Volga German colony of Walter in 10 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 102.