Johannes Kraft (age 3) is recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 71 as the stepson of Johannes Scharf.
Johannes Kraft is recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 7 along with his stepfather Johannes Scharf.
The 1798 census of Norka records that the Johannes Kraft family is living at the mill near Messer.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that the Kraft family came from the German district of Darmstadt.
Wilhelm Köhler, his wife Anna Maria, daughter Katharina (age 20), and son Konrad (age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the snow-brig Die Frau Dietrika under the command of Skipper Joachim Friedrich Luhn.
Just Köhler (age 18) settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 5 living with the family of Johannes Hölzer. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Köhler and Hölzer families.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Köhler line among the Volga German colonies.
In 1788, Heinrich & Johannes Koch moved from Moor to Norka.
Johannes Koch and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr208.
Friedrich Koch and his family 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 Norka on 15 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 156.
By 1798, Friedrich's son Johannes Koch is recorded living in the colony of Müller (Ml26) and son Georg Koch is recorded living in the colony of Kolb (Ko28).
Abraham Koch, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Albertina Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 91.
Abraham Koch and his wife Albertina Elisabeth are recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Supplemental Household No. 6. Notes accompanying the 1775 census record that Abraham Koch is a boot maker and that he has 3 stepsons, but they are not named.
The 1767 census records that Abraham Koch is from the German district of Bieber.
The baptism of Johann Adam Koch, son of Thomas Koch, is recorded in the parish register of Sterbfritz on 26 August 1731. He married Anna Catharina Bechtoldt, daughter of Conrad Bechtoldt, on 9 November 1752 in Roth. She had been born there and baptized in Gründau on 16 December 1725.
The death of Georg Friedrich Knippel, 11-week-old son of colonist Friedrich Knippel from Fillingen [Villingen] in the area of Braunfels, is recorded on 25 April 1766 in the parish register of the Lutheran Church in Büdingen.
Friedrich Knippel, a farmer, his wife Amalia, and daughter Katharina (age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the ship Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
Johann Conrad Werth, son of Johann Heinrich Werth, was baptized in Spielberg on 24 December 1747. His sister, Eva Elisabeth, had been baptized there on 7 April 1745.
Johann Conrad and his sister, who had married Conrad Preisendorf, immigrated to Russia arriving from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the pink Cargo under the command of Lieutenant Moses Davydov.
Johann Christoph Weinberger, son of Johannes Weinberger from Bösgesäß, married on 4 January 1743 to Anna Magdalena Hoffman, daughter of Johann Christoph Hoffman from Mauswinkel.
The births of three of their children are recorded in the parish register of Bösgesäß: (1) Catharina, born 7 November 1743; (2) Anna Margaretha, born 20 November 1745; and (3) Johann Heinrich, born 22 May 1754.
Daughter Catharina Weinberger married Johann Peter Kaÿser in Büdingen on 28 April 1766.