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Johann Heinrich Schneider, his wife Anna, and daughters (Anna, age 18; Anna [again], age 14) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.

Johann Heinrich Schneider, his wife Anna, and daughters (Anna Eva, age 19; Anna Maria, age 14) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Anna died en route.

It is not known in which colony this family settled.

Johann Weidemann, his wife Anna, and children (Kaspar, age 2½; Franziska, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.

Johann Wiedemann [sic], his wife Anna, and daughter Franzisca (age ½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that they all died en route.

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

Johann Georg Jäkel, his wife Magdalena, and son Johann (age 5¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.

Joseph Werner, his wife Maria, and children (Anna, age 2½; Joseph, age 4-days) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.

Joseph Werner, his wife Maria, and daughter Anna (age 2½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that all of them died en route.

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

Johann Christoph Koch, his wife Anna, and children (Elisabeth, age 15½; Johann, age 5½; Johann, age 4; Peter, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.

Johannes Feldmann, a farmer, his wife Maria, and daughter Anna (age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Johann Feldmann and his daughter Anna Elisabeth (age 20) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Johann Feldmann died en route.

Elisabeth Duxberger Hahn née Feldmann from Cäsarsfeld is recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka039.

Pankratius Kurtz [sic], his wife Dorothea, and daughters (Maria, age 9; Katharina, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.

Pankratius Kuntz [sic], his wife Dorothea, and daughter Maria (age 9) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that the father died in route.

It is not known in which colony they settled.