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Metyard

The widow and son (Heinrich Metyard, age 14) of Peter Metyard from Meinhard are recorded on the 1798 census of Näb in Household No. Nb35.

Blumental, Stavropol Krai (North Caucasus)

Blumental (also called Blumenfeld) first appears on a 1873 list of populated places in the Stavropol district, located adjacent to a village of the landowner Zolotarev. [The colony of Friedrichsfeld was founded on Zolotarev's land in 1884.]

It was located on the right bank of the Big Kugulta [Бол. Кугульта] River about 80 kilometers northeast of Stavropol.

There are a couple of recorded versions of the estabishment of Blumental.

Friedrichsfeld, Stavropol Krai (North Caucasus)

Friedrichsfeld was founded in 1885 by ethnic German colonists relocating from the Kherson Province. They were later joined by Volga German colonists relocating from both the Saratov and Samara Provinces.

The colonists bought 4,000 desyatins on the right bank of the Big Kugulta [Бол. Кугульта] River about 70 kilometers northeast of Stavropol from Fyodor Zolotarev after whom the village took its Russian name of Zolotarevka.

In 1941, all of the German inhabitants were deported to Asiatic Russia.

Bethel, Stavropol Krai (North Caucasus)

Bethel was founded in 1879 along the right bank of the Big Kugulta [Бол. Кугульта] River about 70 kilometers northeast of Stavropol.

The original families that settled in Bethel came directly from Prussia. They were joined by Black Sea and Volga German colonists resettling from the Kherson, Taurida, and Samara Provinces and Bessarabia.

During the Russian Civil War (1917) the village was badly damaged by fire and many families fled to the colonies of the northern Black Sea region.

In 1941, the remaining German inhabitants of Bethel were deported to Asiatic Russia.

Martinsfeld, Stavropol Krai (North Caucasus)

Martinsfeld was a colony founded in 1868, but there were German-Russian inhabitants living there as early as 1865. It was located on the right bank of the Big Kugulta [Бол. Кугульта] River about 70 kilometers northeast of Stavropol. The land (2,018 desyatins) had been purchased from State Councilor Martinov after whom it was named.

Early inhabitants were Black Sea and Volga German colonists resettling from the Kherson, Taurida, and Samara Provinces and Bessarabia.

In 1915, the village was renamed to Martinovka.

Schmidt (Norka-2)*

Catharina Schmidt, daughter of Johannes Schmidt & Elisabeth Sprankel, was born 31 July 1733 in Queckborn.

Conrad Krüger & Catharina Schmidt from Queckborn were married on 11 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen. [See Krieger Family.]

Konrad Krüger, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Anna Maria (age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the comand of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.

Machelmann*

Johann Friedrich Machelmann (age 20) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 104 along with his stepfather Christian Peise.

It is not known in which colony this family settled.

The 1767 census does not record from where Johann Friedrich Machelmann came.

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

Peise*

Christian Peise, a farmer, and his wife Dorothea are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 104 along with stepson Johann Friedrich Machelmann (age 20).

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census records that Christian Peise came from the German village of Zigeser [?].

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

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