Albach

Peter Allbach, a son of Johann Peter Allbach & Maria Elisabetha Peter, was born in Vadenrod, south of Alsfeld, and baptized on 10 August 1738 in the Evangelical Church of Hopfgarten about 4 kilometers from Vadenrod. His brother Johann Heinrich, also born in Vadenrod, was baptized in the same church on 2 July 1742.

The birth of a son to Peter Albach is recorded in Vadenrod: Johann, born 9 September 1766.

Peter, a farmer, his wife Katharina, son Johann (age 1), and brother Johann Heinrich (a tailor) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

The newborn died before arrival in the colony of Paulskaya on 23 July 1767. Peter & Katharina Albach are recorded in Paulskaya on the 1767 Census in Household No. 69. Brother Johann Heinrich Albach is recorded in Household No. 88.

Another Johann Heinrich Albach, a single farmer (age 25), is also recorded recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 105 along with a note that he settled in the colony of Paulskaya in 1768.

On the 1798 Census of Paulskaya, Katharina and is recorded as a widow in Household No. Pl10.

Johann, a descendant of this family, moved to Beauregard in 1797 where he is recorded on the 1798 Census in Household No. Bo24.

Heinrich Jakob Ahlbach and his family are recorded on an 1865 list of colonists resettled to Lilienfeld along with a note that they arrived in Lilienfeld from Paulskaya on 11 March 1859.