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Folnis*

Orphan Konrad Folnis (age 16) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 56 along with the Johann Kaspar Schmidt family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Folnis and Schmidt families.

His is assumed to have settled in the colony of Hockerberg because that's where the Schmidt family settled.

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

Müller (Unknown-1)*

Christian Müller, a farmer, and his wife Christina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 60. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Christian Müller came from the German village of Katzenbach.

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

Dick (Unknown)*

Konrad Dick, a farmer, his wife Susanna, and daughter Elisabeth (age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of skipper Johann Joachim Janson.

Conrad Dick, his wife Susanna, and daughter Elisabeth (age 1½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that both Conrad and his infant daughter Elisabeth died in route.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Dick came from the German region of Darmstadt.

Schreitz*

Johann Schreitz, a weaver, his wife Maria, and children (Johann, age 8; Wilhelmina, age 4) arrived in Oranienbaum from Lübeck on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Katharina under the command of skipper Johann Joachim Janson.

Johannes Schreits [sic], his wife Maria, and children (Johannes, age 8½; Wilhelmina, age 4½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.

Meier (Unknown-2)*

Johann Meier, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of skipper Johann Joachim Janson.

Johann Heinrich Meyer and his wife Anna Elisabeth are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Heinrich Meier, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 51. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.

Meier (Basel-2)*

Heinrich Meier from Basel and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka139.

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

Bohn (Unknown)*

Christian Bohn, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766.

Christian Bohn is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.

Widower Christian Bohn, a farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 50. He had arrived there on 3 August 1767.

It is not known in which Volga German colony Christian Bohn eventually settled.