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Johann Christian Batz, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Katharina, and son Christian (age not recorded) settled in the Volga German colony of Reinhard on 15 July 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 12.

The parish register of Roßlau records a Christian Patz marrying Cath. Barbara Baumhemel on 28 May 1765. This may be the son Christian who is recorded in Reinhard in 1767.

The 1767 census records that Johann Christian Batz came from the German village of Blankenhain in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).

Johann Frahm and Maria Dorothea Rehders were married on 16 October 1765 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.

Johann Georg Frahm, a farmer, and his wife Maria Dorothea settled in the Volga German colony of Reinhard on 15 July 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 15.

The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Frahm came from the German village of Schwerin in the Mecklenburg region.

Peter Ebermann, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Reinhard on 15 July 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 19.

The death of Peter Ebermann in 1816 is recorded on the 1834 census of Reinhard in Household No. 57.

The 1767 census records that Peter Ebermann came from the city of Stockholm in Sweden.

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

Johannes Mertz and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Reinhard. Johannes died and his widow, Elisabeth, remarried to Johann David Klinger.

The combined Klinger/Mertz families are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 29.

The 1767 census records that Elisabeth Mertz came from the German village of Flor [Florstadt?] in the region of Isenburg.

Gottfried Samuel Mehlhorn, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Theresia settled in the Volga German colony of Reinhard on 15 July 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 6.

The 1798 census of Reinhard (Rh24) records that Friedrich Mehlhorn from Reinhard is working in Katharinenstadt.

The 1767 census records that Gottfried Samuel Mehlhorn came from the German village of Auerbach in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).

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

Johann Friederich [sic] Rasch and Anna Maria Weber married on 17 September 1765 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.

Johann Friedrich Rasch, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Anna Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Reinhard on 15 July 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 21.

Friedrich Rasch and his family (sons: Johann Jakob, age 25; Johann Michael, age 22; Johann Gottfried, age 16) are recorded on the 1798 census of Reinhard in Household No. Rh16.

Christoph Schweichert, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Reinhard on 15 July 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 5.

In 1788, Friedrich Schweigert moved from Reinhard to Schwed. In 1788, Valentin Schweigert moved from Schwed to Reinhard.

The 1767 census records that Christoph Schweichert came from the German village of Haase in the Kurpfalz region.

Widow Katharina Engelbrecht and her 9-year-old son settled in the Volga German colony of Reinhard on 15 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 3.

The 1767 census records that Katharina Engelbrecht came from the Swedish town of Stralnau.