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Johann Heinrich Reis, a farmer, his wife Anna Katharina, and daughter Anna Kunigunda (age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the galliot Die Perle under the command of Skipper Thomson.

Johann Henrich Reiss [sic], his wife Cathrina, and daughter Cunigunda (age ¾) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Bernhard Schwab, a farmer, his wife Susanna Maria, and mother-in-law Katharina [surname not recorded] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the galliot Die Perle under the command of Skipper Thomson.

Bernhard Schwab, his wife Anna Maria, and mother-in-law [first name not recorded] Peyl are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

There are three Schwab families that settled in the Volga German colony of Semenovka. Two of them are believed to be related because it is recorded on the 1767 census that they both came from Eichstätt in the region of Kurmainz.

(1) Mattias Schwab, a farmer, and his wife Marianna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the galliot Die Perle under the command of Skipper Thomson.

Johann Georg Breit, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Sebastian, age 18; Franz Anton, age 13; Johann Thomas, age 10½; Katharina Elisabeth, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 11 August 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Citadel under the command of Midshipman Gregory Bukharin.

Johann Georg Breit, his wife Catharina, and children (Sebastian, age 20; Frantz Anthon, age 14; Johann Thomas, age 10; Catrina Elisabeth, age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Heinrich Martel, a farmer from the district of Kurmainz, his wife, Elisabeth, and his two brothers (Johann & Peter) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of skipper Wiebe 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. 29.  Johannes Martel is also recorded there in Household No. 51.

In 1798, Johann Peter Martel moved from Dehler to Brabander.

Johann Kroneberger, a farmer, his wife Anna, and sons (Ehrlach [sic], age 17½; Erick, age 12; Salomon, age 8) 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.

Wilhelm Kroneberger, a farmer, his wife Anna Gertrude, and sons (Johann Gerhardt, age 18; Georg Heinrich, age 15; Salomon, age 11) settled in the Volga German colony of Dehler on 1 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 10.

Konrad Günther, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a koff named Alette under the command of Skipper Wybe Hendricks.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Dehler on 26 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 32.

The 1767 census records that Konrad Günther came from the German village of Issewörth in the Kurmainz area.

Anna Barbara Gutfeld (age 25) and her sister Anna Katharina (age 16) settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 85 where Anna Barbara is married to Georg Ernst Henkel.

There are no known male descendants of this Gutfeld family, so this surname does not continue among the Volga German colonies.