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Johann Meiser [sic], a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and children (Anna, age 8; Johann, age 6; Elisabeth, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Guilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.

The three children arrived in the Volga German colony of Norka on 2 September 1767:

(1) Anna Dorothea Messer (age 10) is recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 202 with the Georg Popp family.

Heinrich Messer, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Katharina, age 18; Anna Katharina, age 12; Wilhelmina, age 8; Johann, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Slon (Elephant) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767.

Heinrich Messer, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Katharina, age 19; Anna Katharina, age 13; Wilhelmina, age 9; Johannes, age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 52.

Three Fischer families arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Slon (Elephant) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov. Their relationship to each other, except in the ways described, requires further research. 

(1) Konrad Fischer (born about 1735), a single farmer, arrived in Oranienbaum.

Christian Span from Oberissigheim & Anna Catharina Lochmann from Himbach were married on 7 October 1761.  The baptisms of two of their children, both born in Himbach, are recorded in the Eckartshausen parish register: (1) Johann Heinrich, born 30 October 1762; and (2) Catharina Ferdinanda, born 1 July 1765.

Christian Spahn, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Johann Heinrich, age 4; Katharina, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.

Widow Anna Margaretha Repp and children (Anna Maria, age 14; Konrad, age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Slon (Elephant) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 59.

They are recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 204.

Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that the Repp family came from the German district of Isenburg.

Johannes Schreiner, son of Conrad and Anna Margaretha Schreiner, was born on 20 September 1715.  Magdalena Gerdt, daughter of Conrad Gerdt, was born on 10 December 1717 in Hüttengesäß. Johannes and Magdalena married on 14 January 1745.  Among their children, each born in Wiedermus are: (1) Johann Phillip, born 10 January 1746; (2) Johann Conrad, born 30 March 1753; and (3) Anna Christina, born 20 March 1760.

Three Eberling families from Büdingen settled in the Volga German colony of Norka. Their relationship to each other, if any, requires further investigation.

(1) Heinrich Carl and Appolonia Eberling had five children, all baptized in Büdingen: (1 & 2) twins Johannes and Johann Joachim, 21 July 1743; (3) Johanna Catharina, 19 December 1745; (4) Johann Georg, 4 February 1748; and (5) Eva Elisabetha Justine, 8 September 1751.

Just Höltzer [sic] (1712-1760) married 17 July 1738 in Oberzell to Elisabeth Graußhaar (1716-1758). The baptisms of four sons are recorded in the parish register of Oberzell: (1) Johannes, baptized 7 September 1739; (2) Johann Conrad, baptized 8 October 1745; (3) Johannes, baptized 1 February 1748; and (4) Johann Adam, baptized 18 February 1750.

Johann Nikolaus Hahn, son of Hartmann & Anna Ursula Hahn, was born 23 June 1715 in Altengronau. He married on 10 September 1739 in Altengronau to Anna Margaretha Böhm, daughter of Johannes Böhm.

The births of the following children to Johann Nikolaus Hahn & Anna Margaretha Böhm are recorded in the parish register of Altengronau: (1) Valentin, born 3 June 1740, died 5 October 1741; (2) Melchior, born 14 September 1742; (3) Eva Elisabeth, born 2 December 1744; and (4) Conrad, born in 1748.

Philipp Reuscher, son of Johannes Reuscher, was baptized in Altengronau on 26 August 1725. Philipp Reuscher married Anna Catharina Kühlmann from Altengronau on 5 March 1750.

The baptisms of 5 of the children of Philipp & Anna Catharina Reuscher are recorded in the parish register of Altengronau: (1) Johann Conrad, baptized 26 January 1750; (2) Johann Caspar, baptized 28 April 1753; (3) Johann Adam, baptized 6 October 1754; (4) Anna Barbara, baptized 5 May 1757; and (5) Gertrude, baptized 2 March 1759.