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Bauer (Unknown)*

Ulrich Bauer, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.

Ulrich Bauer and his wife Margaretha are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.

Ulrich Bauer, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 83. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.

Bohl, Craig

Craig Bohl was born 27 July 1958 in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Craig played college football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers as a defensive back and has since gone on to coach college football professionally.

He served as the head coach of the North Dakota State University Bisons from 2003 to 2013. His career there included three consecutive NCAA Division I Championships.

In 2014, he became the head coach of the University of Wyoming Cowboys.

Coach Bohl's Volga German ancestors came from the colony of Huck.

Beckel (Unknown)*

Konrad Beckel, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Konrad Beckel, a farmer, and his wife Anna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 79. It is not known in which colony they eventually settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Beckel came from the German region of Bayreuth. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Erlbach.

Michaelis (Unknown)*

Christian [sic] Michaelis, a barber, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.

Fertinand Michaelis and his wife Loussa [sic] Maria are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.

Ferdinand Michaelis, a barber (Friseur), his wife Maria, and daughter Dorothea (age 6-months) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 76. It is not known in which colony they eventually settled.

Herr (Unknown)*

Johann Herr, a farmer, and his wife Dorothea are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 73. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Johann Herr came from the German region of Mecklenburg.

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

Rothenburg*

Johann Rothenburg, a stocking maker, his wife Anna, and daughter Magdalena (age 18) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson.

Johannes Rothenburg, his wife Catarina [sic], and daughter Magdalena (age 18) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Catarina [sic] died in route.

Johann Rothenburg, a farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 71.

Fink (Basel)*

Orphan Katharina Fink (age 12) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 63 along with the Tiedemann Hahn family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Hahn and Fink families.

Katharina Fink is assumed to have settled in the colony of Basel because that's where the Hahn family settled.

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