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Hämelmann*

Johann Daniel Hämelmann married Anna Elisabeth Grun. They have at least 1 daughter: Anna Margaretha, born in Wehrda on 26 June 1732. She married in 1754 to Johann Valentin Melcher and immigrated to Russia. [See Melcher Family.]

Daniel Hämelmann re-married to Elisabeth Sippel. They have at least 1 daughter: Anna Margaretha “Eva” Hämelmann, born in Wehrda on 31 December 1740. She married in 1761 to Johannes Wagner and immigrated to Russia. [See Wagner Family.]

There are no known surviving male lines of the Hämelmann family among the Volga German colonies.

Lotz (Meinhard)

Widower Johann Heinrich Lotz, a farmer, and his children (Johannes, age 17; Christina, age 15; Heinrich, age 11; Anna Maria, age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 23 along with a note that they settled in the colony of Meinhard in 1768.

The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Lotz came from the German village of Stangendorf.

Mankeln*

Elisabeth Mankeln, a widow, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 81 along with a note that she relocated to the colony of Orlovskaya in 1768.

The 1767 census records that Widow Mankeln came from the German village of Niederraden. [There are two villages named Niederraden in Rheinland-Pfalz. One is in Kr. Bitburg-Prüm and the other was united in 1974 with Oberraden and is located in Kr. Neuwied.]

There are no known surviving male lines of the Mankeln family among the Volga German colonies.

Grünewald (Meinhard)

Wilhelm Grünewald, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johann, age 20; Elisabeth, age 18; Georg, age 10; Friedrich, age 3) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 42.

Son Johannes Grünewald, his wife Christina, and their family are recorded on the 1798 census of Meinhard in Household No. Mn13.

Widow Anna Christina Grünewald and her family are recorded on the 1834 census of Meinhard in Household No. 80.

In 1786, Friedrich Grünewald moved from Meinhard to Shaffhausen.