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Grashoff*

Andreas Grasshoff, his wife Dorothea, and son Johann (age 10¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.

Andreas Grasshoff, his wife Dorothea, and son Johann (age 10¼) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Andreas Grasshoff, a farmer, and his wife Anna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 33 along with step-children (Johann Gottfried Golop, age 11; Anna Christina Golop, age 10½).

Wiesner (Unknown)*

Johann Gottieb Wiesner, a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 31. They had arrived there on 17 August 1767.

They have not been located after this census in any colony.

The 1767 census records that Johann Gottlieb Wiesner came from the German village of Raßnitz.

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

Giest (Kind)*

Johann Giest, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oraninenbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the Love & Unity under the command of Thomas Fairfax.

Joh. Phillip Giest and his wife Anna Maria are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.

Braun (Kind)*

Johann Braun, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children [some evidently step-children] (Johann [Heinrich Werner], age 17; Elisabeth, age 14; Nikolaus [Werner], age 12; Konrad, age 10) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oraninenbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the Love & Unity under the command of Thomas Fairfax.

Hahn (Unknown-1)*

Oswald Hahn, a farmer, and his wife Anna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 26.

The 1767 census records that Oswald Hahn came from the German village of Neuensien [?].

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

Koppel

Kaspar Koppel, a farmer, and his sister Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Caspar Coppell [sic] and his sister Elisabeth are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.

Speier (Kind)*

Johann Adam Speier, a farmer, and his wife Anna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 9.

They are recorded as the baptismal sponsors of Johann Adam Dillmann, son of Johann Balthasar Dillmann & Anna Maria Wilg, who was baptized 7 July 1766 in the Lutheran Cathedral (Evangelische Kirche Dom) in Lübeck.

The Speier family may have settled in the colony of Kind along with the Dillmann family.

The 1767 census records that Johann Adam Speier came from the German village of Kaderhein in the region of Erbach.