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Widow Anna Holzmeier and her sons arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Siebe Heinrichson.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Dehler on 26 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 50 (with Anna recorded as Margaretha).

The 1767 census records that Margaretha Holzmeier came from the German village of Selzen in the Kurpfalz region.

Johann Wilhelm Holz, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the Danish galliot Der Engel Rafael under the command of Skipper Ehlert Kongsted.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Urbach on 3 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 43.

The 1767 census records that Johann Wilhelm Holz came from the German village of Halle in the Brandenburg district.

Heinrich Hollbeck, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.

He setttled in the Volga German colony of Dinkel on 27 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 47 along with his new wife, Dorothea Elisabeth.

The 1767 census records that Heinrich Hollbeck came from the German village of Rieben in the Brandenburg region.

Widow Susanna Holland, her son Konrad (age 7), and her daughter Katharina along with Katharina's husband Kaspar Zieg arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Konrad settled in the Volga German colony of Messer on 18 June 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 71 along with his brother-in-law Kaspar Zieg.

The 1767 census records that Konrad Holland came from the German district of Isenburg.

David Hohndorf, a tailor, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pinkom.

David's surviving son settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 3 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 20 living with the Christoph Lipps family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Hohndorf and Lipps families.

In 1790, David Hohndorf moved from Orlovskaya to Schäfer.

Karl Wilhelm von Holstein, a Polish nobleman, and his wife Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Merkel on 28 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 44.

The 1767 census records that Karl Wilhelm von Holstein came from the German region of Mecklenburg.

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

Widow Magdalena Weimer and her children arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the ship Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Kraft on 18 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 53.