Paul Hering, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and daughters (Anna Margaretha, age 7; Juliana Katharina, age 6; Anna Elisabeth, age 2) settled in the Volga German colony of Kautz on 21 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 18 along with stepdaughters (Maria Elisabeth, age 13; Anna Elisabeth, age 11) [surname not recorded].
Jakob Schuhmann, a farmer, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Severnyi Orel (Northern Eagle) under the command of Lieutenant Pyotr Malenkov.
Jakob Schuhmann, a farmer, and his wife, Maria, settled in the Volga German colony of Kautz on 20 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 5.
Jakob Schuhmann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kautz in Household No. Kz23.
Simon Meier, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and children (Maria, age 8; Jakob, age 5¼; Andreas, age 2½; Heinrich, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Svyataya Ekaterina (St. Catherine) under the command of Midshipman Alexander Trusov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kautz on 20 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 4.
David Klein, a farmer, his wife Sabina, and children (Katharina, age 19; Daniel, age 17¼; Appolonia, age 13; Barbara, age 9; Philipp, age 6; Margaretha, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Svyataya Ekaterina (St. Catherine) under the command of Midshipman Alexander Trusov.
During the War of the Palatinate Succession (1688-1697), the village of Freimersheim in der Pfalz was completely destroyed and temporarily abandonded. In 1801, the territory passed to the French, and after a brief time being part of Austria, it was passed to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816. Today, it is part of the German state of Rheinland-Pfalz.
Konrad Frickel, a farmer, and his wife Sophia arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Svyatoi Pavel (St. Paul) under the command of the Lieutenant Fyedor Sornev.
Konrad Frickel and his new wife, Maria Wendelina, settled in the Volga German colony of Kautz on 20 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 6.
Philipp Heinrich Frickel, presumed son of Konrad Frickel, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kautz in Household No. Kz07.
Georg Gradwohl, a saddle maker (Sattler), and his wife Maria Barbara arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kautz on 20 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 11.
In 1794, Daniel Gradwohl moved from Kautz to Hussenbach.
Daniel Gradwohl and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 136.
Today, Ottenheim is part of a an administrative restructuring that brought together Ottenheim with Allmannsweier, Nonenweier, and Wittenweier into a new "town" called Schwanau.
Philipp Rahnert, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Anna Margaretha, age 10; Johann Heinrich, age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Bauer in Household No. 25. They had settled there on 20 July 1766.
Philipp Rahnert and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household Br52.
The 1767 census records that Philipp Rahnert came from the German village of Meißenheim in Württemberg.
[In some records/translations, the surname of Rahnert has been comingled with the surname of Rennert.]
The parish register of Mettenheim records that Johann Christoph Fischer, son of Julius Heinrich Fischer, married a Bender woman. It further records that he has lived in Astracan [the region in which the Volga German colonies were located at the time] since 1765-1766 and that he is residing in the Volga German colony of Bauer.
Johann Christoph Fischer, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), is recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. He had arrived in Worms on 20 September 1765 along with his uncle Michael Reichel and his family.