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Bortl*

Elisabeth Bortl (age 11) is recorded on the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 37 along with her stepfather Nikolaus Spahn. The 1767 census does not record from where Elisabeth Bortl came.

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

Bäcker / Becker (Näb-1)

Friedrich Becker, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Amalia, age 16; Johann [Moritz], age 10; Georg, age 7;Johannes [Mangus], age 3; Peter, age 2-weeks) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Johann Friedrich Becker, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Johann Moritz, age 11; Johann Georg, age 7; Georg Magnus, age 3; Amalia Katharina, age [1]7) are recorded on the Transport List of those moving between St. Petersburg and Saratov in 1767.

Schröder (Näb)

Johann Heinrich Schröder, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Elisabeth, age 9; Philipp, age 7; Martin, age 4) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 14 along with a note that they settled in the colony of Näb in 1768.

The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Schröder came from the German village of Rommersberg [?].

Bäcker / Becker (Näb-2)

Heinrich Becker, a single farmer, and his brother Johann (age 17) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Brothers Joh. Heinrich and Joh. Georg Becher [sic] are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Heinrich Becker, a single farmer, is recorded on the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 89 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Näb in 1768.

Pilen*

Johannes Pilen, his wife Maria Eva, and daughters (Gertrude, age 4; Elisabeth, age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 26 along with the orphan Nikolaus Friedrichs (age 17). The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Pilen and Friedrichs families.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Pilen came from the German region of Kurtrier.

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

Mosser

Johannes Mosser, a single teacher (Lehrer), is recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 82 along with a note that he is working as a day-laborer (Lohnarbeiter). He had settled there on 15 July 1767.

The death of Joseph Mosser in 1826 is recorded on the 1834 census of Köhler in Household No. 91. His relationship to Johannes Mosser on the 1767 census is undetermined at this time.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Mosser came from the German village of Vilseck [?].

Metzger (Leitsinger)*

Orphan Kaspar Metzger (age 9) is recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 49 along with the Kaspar Hiller family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Metzger and Hiller families.

The 1767 census does not record from where Kaspar Metzger came.

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

Merlein*

Michael Merlein, a farmer, and his wife Barbara are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 68. They had settled there on 5 September 1767.

The 1767 census records that Michael Merlein came from the German village of Reuth in the Bamberg region.

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