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Noack (Boisroux)

Martin Nowak, a farmer, his wife Maria, and his children (Maria, age 4; Christian, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.

Martin Noack and his wife Maria Sophia are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Lohr (Boisroux-1)

There are several Lohr-related individuals traveling together. Their relationship to each other needs further research. They arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder.

(1) Johannes Lohr (senior) arrived in Oranienbaum.

He is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that he died en route.

Hoppe (Boisroux)

An article by Hermann Wäschke records the following going to Russia:

(unnamed) Hoppe, a day laborer (Tagelöhner), with his wife and 3 children (one son & two daughters), from the district of Dessau.

Christoph Hoppe, a farmer, his wife Johanna, and children (Johanna, age 16; and Johann, age 9; Eleonora, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.

Heilmann (Boisroux)

Sebastian Heilmann arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder along with his uncle Johannes Lohr. The Oranienbaum passenger list erroneously records his surname as Lohr.

He settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 17 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 61 along with his uncle Johannes Lohr.

Ulitz*

Johann Friedrich Ulitz, a single barber (Friseur), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.

Friedrich Uhlitz [sic] are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

He arrived in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767 and is recorded in Household No. 54 of the appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou. The following year he settled in the colony of Biberstein.

Geis (Bangert)

Johann Heinrich Geis, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Der Junge Mattias under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Bangert on 1 July 1767. Heinrich Geis died and his widow Susanna remarried to Johannes Reber. They are recorded on the 1767 census of Bangert in Household No. 14 along with Reber's surviving sons.

Reber (Bangert)

Johann Reber and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Der Junge Mattias under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Bangert on 1 July 1767. Johann's wife Anna died and he remarried to Susanna Geis, widow of Johann Heinrich Geis. They are recorded on the 1767 census of Bangert in Household No. 14 along with the surviving Geis sons.

Sorg (Bangert)

Nikolaus Sorg, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Der Junge Mattias under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Bangert on 1 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 11.

They 1767 census records that Nikolaus Sorg came from the German village of Mönstadt in the Nassau-Usingen region.