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Ludwig Lauer and his wife Anna Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.

Ludewig [sic] Lauer and his wife Anna Catharina are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Widower Ludwig Lauer, a hosier (Strumpfwirker), settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou on 3 August 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 95.

The marriage on 12 January 1755 of Nikolaus Maÿbach of Wernborn, son of the deceased Mathias Maÿbach, to Anna Maria Schuster of Weissborn [?], daughter of Georg Wilhelm Schuster, is recorded in the parish register of St. Georg Catholic Church in Pfaffenwiesbach.

Nicolas Useldinger & Margaretha Fischer had 3 children whose births are recorded on the parish register of Remich, Luxemburg: (1) Joseph, born 19 March 1743; (2) Matthias, born 31 December 1745; and (3) Barbara, born 7 March 1749. Mother Margaretha died in Remich on 18 January 1760.

Joseph married Maria [surname unknown] and the birth of a son is recorded on the parish register of Remich: Oswald, born 4 April 1764.

Jean Pasqual, a milliner (Hutmacher), his wife Stepanida, and daughter Diage [?] (age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Franzosen in Household No. 55. He had arrived in Franzosen on 26 August 1766.

In 1793, Peter Pasqual moved from Franzosen to Husaren.

In 1796, Johannes Pasqual moved from Franzosen to Rothammel.

The 1834 census of Husaren (Household No. 14) records that Peter Basgall moved from Husaren to Ober-Monjou in 1825.

The 1834 census of Husaren (Household No. 21) records that Anton Basgall moved from Husaren to Brabander.

Franz Renoir, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Anna, age 14; Peter, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Der Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 15 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 79.

The 1767 census records that Franz Renoir came from the village of Remich in Luxembourg.

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

Three Schröpfer families arrived together from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Der Jäger [The Hunter] under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will. Both settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 15 July 1767. There relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

(1) Johannes Schröpfer, a farmer, his wife Dorothea, son Johann (age 13), and sister Susanna (age 25) arrived in Oranienbaum.

Joseph Geiderscheid [sic], a weaver, his wife Magdalena, and son Mattias (age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the 2-masted merchant ship named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.

Joseph Geisterscheid, clothweaver (Tuchweber), and his wife, Magdalena, settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 15 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 69.

Peter Kranz, a farmer, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Der Jäger under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 15 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 57.

In 1788, Peter Krantz and his wife moved from Preuss to Keller.

Peter Krantz from Preuss and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk23.