VGI Updates

Christian Reiber, a bread maker (Semmelbäcker), and his wife Anna Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Kautz on 3 August 1767.  They are recorded there, along with their 3-week-old son Johann Georg, on the 1767 census in Household No. 16.

The 1767 census records that the Reibers came from the German village of Bornheim in the Pfalz.

Jeorg Jacob Kauz [sometimes spelled Kauss, Kauz, Kauzen], son of Peter & Maria Elisabetha Kauss, was baptized in the parish church in Erpolzheim on 2 March 1730. According to records in Russia, he had been born in the village of Ungstein a few kilometers west of Erpolzheim.

Ulrich Schmidt, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Saratov under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.

Ulrich Schmidt, a farmer, and his wife settled in the Volga German colony of Kautz on 20 July 1767.  They are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 8.

Ulrich is recorded as a widower on the 1798 census in Kautz (Kz13).

Sebastian Keim, a farmer, his wife Veronika, and their son Johann (age 6-weeks) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Neptunus (Neptune) under the command of Skipper Johann Graap.

Sebastian Keim and his wife Feronika are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.