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Beier (Kukkus)

Johannes Beier and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kukkus in Household No. Kk25.

Descendants of this Beier family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kukkus in Households No. 39 & 72.

Kehling

Friedrich Kehling and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kukkus in Household No. Kk28.

Konrad Kehling, son of Friedrich Kehling, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kukkus in Household No. 12.

Wen(t)zel (Keller-2)

Christian Wenzel, a farmer, and his wife Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Keller on 12 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 44.

Adam Wenzel, believed to be the son of Christian Wenzel, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk29.

The 1767 census records that Christian Wenzel came from the village of Scheer [?] in Austria.

Zitzer (Katharinenstadt)

The baptismal and confirmation records of Heinrich Zitzer and Elisabeth Leim have been located in the parish records of Usingen in the Principality of Nassau-Usingen.

Johann Hinrich [sic] Zitzer & Elisabeth Catharina Lein were married 1 July 1766 in the Lutheran Cathedral (Evangelische Kirche Dom) in Lübeck.

Heinrich Zitzer and his wife Elisabeth arrived at the port in Oranienbaum aboard the English frigate Love and Unity on 23 December 1766.

von Wipler*

Widower Karl Wenzeslaus von Wipler, a lieutenant (Leutnant), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 57 along with a note that he settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt in 1768.

The 1767 census records that Karl Wenzeslaus von Wippler came from the German village of Untitz.

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