Schleitheim, Schaffhausen Kanton, Switzerland
Right on the Swiss side of the border between Switzerland and Baden-Württemberg.
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Kei(h)m (Kautz)
Sebastian Keim, a farmer, his wife Veronika, and their son Johann (6-weeks-old) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Johann Grapp.
Sebastian Keim and his wife Feronika are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Sebastian Keim and his wife Veronika settled in the Volga German colony of Kautz on 21 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 23. Widow Veronika is recorded on the 1798 census in Kautz (Kz19).
Werner (Kautz)*
Anna Margaretha Werner, widow of an unnamed farmer, and her sons (Johann Heinrich, age 20; Johann Philipp, age 11) is recorded on the 1767 census of Kautz in Household No. 28. They had settled there on 30 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Anna Margaretha Werner came from the German village of Bliesdalheim in the Kurpfalz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Werner family among the Volga German colonies.
Bracht
Peter Bracht, a miner (Erzbergbauarbeiter), and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the hooker Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Keller on 12 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 2.
The 1767 census records that Peter Bracht came from the German village of Bruchhausen in the Kurpfalz.
Bruchhausen (Sandhausen), Kr. Rhein-Neckar, Baden-Württemberg
There are many villages named Bruchhausen in Germany. This one is part of the district of Sandhausen in the Kurpfalz.
Dewald (Hussenbach)
Killian Dewald, a baker (Bäcker), his wife Anna Maria Laufer, and children (Anna Elisabeth, age 14; Samuel, age 13; Marilis, age 12; Georg Heinrich, age 11; Christian, age 10; Maria, age 8; Johann Peter, age 6) immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) and are recorded in Altona in April 1761. They settled in the Danish colony of Friderichsholm on 8 August 1761.
The marriage of widower Kilian Dewald to Anna Maria née Betel is recorded in the parish register of St. Michael's Church in the Danish city of Schleswig on 14 June 1761.
Dewald (Kautz)
Heinrich Dewald, a farmer, and his newly-wed wife, Anna Margaretha, settled in the Volga German colony of Kautz on 21 August 1767. They and their 5-week-old daughter, Maria Katharina, are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 26.
The 1767 census also records that Heinrich Dewald came from the German village of Eich in the Pfalz.
Os(t)wald / Os(t)walt (Kautz)
Johannes Oswald, son of Johannes Oswald, married in Eich on 23 July 1726 to Maria Elisabetha Ruff, daughter of Peter Ruff.
Among their children were (1) Johann Valentin, born 25 October 1729; and (2) Conrad, born 25 August 1732.
(1) Valentin married Maria Elisabetha Bajers, daughter of Lorenz Bajers, on 5 June 1764.
Stehle (Kautz)
Martin Stehle and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 on a boat under the command of Skipper Johann Grapp.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kautz on 21 August 1767. They are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 25.
In 1792, Johann Christian Stehle moved from Kautz to Merkel.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Martin Stehle was a carpenter while the 1767 census records that he was a wheelwright.