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Valentin Frühauf, a farmer, wife Margaretha, and children (Bernhardt, age 3; Katharina, age 6-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Bauer in Household No. 19. They had settled in Bauer on 20 July 1766.

Valentin Frühauf and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br07.

There are several Frühauf families from Bauer in Neu-Bauer after 1858.

The 1767 census records that Valentin Frühauf came from the German village of Zweibrücken.

Johann Christoph Bender, a farmer (Ackerbauer), and his wife Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Kratzke on 8 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 40.

Kaspar Bender from Kratzke and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Ährenfeld.

The 1767 census records that Johann Christoph Bender came from the German village of Neilos [Cyrillic: Наилос] in the Württemberg region. Dr. Igor Plehve's translation of the 1767 census records this location as Nauleis near Wittenberg.

Adam Friedrich Kratzke, a musical instrument maker (Musikinstrumentenbauer) from Ueckermünde in Prussian Pomerania, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Kratzke on 7 August 1766.  They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 1.  He was the mayor (Vorsteher) of the colony at that time, and the person after whom the colony was named.

Jonas Lundgrün, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Christina Idilia, daughter Maria Barbara (age 1), and stepsons (Lorenz [Leonhardt] & Johann [Leonhardt]) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kratzke in Household No. 31. They had settled there on 7 August 1766.

In 1793, Johannes Lundgrün and his family moved from Kratzke to Stahl am Tarlyk.

Lorenz Leonhardt from Kratzke is recorded on the 1798 census of Schuck in Household No. Su10. Johann Leonhardt from Degott is recorded on the 1798 census of Franzosen in Household No. Fz20.

Johann Jakob Krug, a farmer, his wife Magdalena, and children (Louisa, age 17½; Johann [Jakob], age 13; Dorothea, age 10; Friedrika, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the ship Die Perle under the command of Skipper Thomson.

The parents did not survive the journey between Oranienbaum and Saratov.  The children settled in the Volga German colony of Kratzke on 7 August 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 9.

Peter Rübke and his stepchildren (Maria Louisa, Johann Jakob, and Anna Dorothea Krug) settled in the Volga German colony of Kratzke on 7 August 1766.  They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 9.  Peter did not have any surving male descendants, and this surname does not continue among the Volga German colonies.

The 1767 census records that he was from the city of Bremen.

Johann Heinrich Reich, a tailor (Schneider), his wife Elisabeth Katharina (age 20), and daughter Friedrika (age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kratzke in Household No. 23. They had arrived in Kratzke on 7 August 1766.

The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Reich came from the Polish village of Rabitsch [?].

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