Johann Eschbach [sic], a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and daughters (Anna, age 17½; Margaretha, age 5¼; Katharina, age ¾) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a barque named Fortitudo (Fortitude) under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Eberhard Ansbach, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife, Katharina, settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 2 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 207.
Sebastian Bechtold, son of Sebastian Bechtold, married on 25 November 1733 to Anna Maria Lissman, daughter of Johann Georg Lissman. Among their many children, all born in Fischborn, is Johann Georg Bechtold who was baptized on 3 March 1742.
Johann Georg Bechthold, a single carpenter, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Стрельна (Strelna - a village near St. Petersburg) under the command of Midshipman Login Sornev.
Johann Heinrich Breitenstein and his wife Anna Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Стрельна (Strelna - a village near St. Petersburg) under the command of Midshipman Login Sornev.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 121 along with the 13-year-old son of the deceased Heinrich Gedde.
Johann Heinrich Brehm, a farmer, his wife Anna Katharina, and daughter Anna Katharina (age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Стрельна (Strelna - a village near St. Petersburg) under the command of Midshipman Login Sornev.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767 are are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 133.
Peter Bott, a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and children (Peter, age 5; Johann Adam, age 2½; Anna Eva; age 4-weeks) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Стрельна (Strelna - a village near St. Petersburg) under the command of Midshipman Login Sornev.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 132.
Peter Köhler, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Johann[es], age 12; Anna Maria, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Стрельна (Strelna - a village near St. Petersburg) under the command of Midshipman Login Sornev.
Peter Keller, his wife, Anna Margaretha, and children (Johannes, age 14; Anna Maria, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 113. They had settled there on 15 August 1767.
Simon Imhoff, a single tailor, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Стрельна (Strelna - a village near St. Petersburg) under the command of Midshipman Login Sornev.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 1 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 8 along with his [new] wife Margaretha.
Widower Simon Imhoff is recorded on the appendix to the 1775 census of Huck in Household No. 3.
Joseph Carbon from Holland & Anna Maria Reinheimer, widow of Andreas Reinheimer from Hhaag [sic] were married on 3 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Joseph Kornborn, his wife Anna Maria, and daughter Sophia Elisabeth (age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pink named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
There are 3 Kühlthau families that settled in the Volga German colony of Norka. They came from neighboring villages in Germany. The first 2 are siblings, but the relationship to the third, if any, requires further research.
(1) Catharina Elisabeth Külthau, daughter of Johannes Külthau & Barbara Dorn, was born in Oberzell and baptized on 1 May 1740.
Elisabeth Külthau married on 9 February 1764 in Oberzell to Johannes Hölzer.
The baptisms of two children of Hans Heinrich & Anna Catharina Lofink from Wüstwillenroth are recorded in the parish register of Lichenroth: (1) Johann Heinrich, born 8 January 1746; and (2) Lorenz, born 21 April 1753. [Maggie Hein reports that there are several men named Hans/Johann Heinrich Lofink living in the parish at this time, and two of those were married to women named Anna Catharina, so exactly how the ancestry continues beyond these two boys will require additional research.]