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Konrad Schneider, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and son Johann Adam (age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Diederika (Lady Diederika) under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Lunau.

Johann Konrad Schneider, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and son Johann Christian (age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. 76. They had arrived in Yagodnaya Polyana on 16 September 1767.

Johann Heinrich Schneider and his wife, Susanna, and daughters (Katharina, age 22; Anna Maria, age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.

Johann Henrich Schneider, his wife Susanna, and daughters (Cathrina, age 23; Anna Maria, age 21) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

[Johann] Peter Stuckart, his wife Anna, and [step-]son Johann [Merkel] (age 17¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.

Peter Stuckard [sic], his wife Maria Dorothea, and stepson Friedrich Merckel [sic] (age 17) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Conrad Wilhelm Kontschuch, son of Augustini Kontschuch, was born in Ortenberg (near Büdingen) on 20 February 1707. He married Anna Elisabeth Wendel, daughter of Johann Conrad Wendel, on 30 November 1730. They had one daughter: Anna Elisabeth, who died on 7 March 1738. Conrad Wilhelm then married Anna Barbara Blum, daughter of Johannes Blum, on 4 September 1738. They had three children: (1) Georg Christoph, born 6 January 1740; (2) Johann Daniel, born 23 May 1742; and (3) Anna Margaretha, born 15 January 1745.

Two Asmus families from Wallernhausen settled in the Volga German colonies. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

(1) Conrad Asmus, son of Heinrich Aßmuß & Barbara Elisabetha Jung (who had been married 28 November 1709 in Wallerhausen), married in Wallernhausen on 30 November 1739 to Anna Maria Stang, daughter of Conrad Stang & Elisabetha Nohl (who had been married on 4 July 1710 in Wallernhausen).

Two Schneidmüller families arrived in the Volga German colony of Yagodnaya Polyana on 16 September 1767. The first has been located in the German village of Sellnrod. The second is recorded as being from the neighboring village of Bobenhausen [not to be confused with the Bobenhausen that is near Büdingen].

(1) Johannes Schneidmüller, son of Martin Schneidmüller & Anna Margartha Hessler, was born 1 May 1724 in Sellnrod and baptized there on 4 May 1724. He married in Sellnrod on 13 May 1751 to Anna Margaretha Stürtz from Wohnfeld.

Johann Mattias Magenleid [sic], a miller, and his wife Dorothea arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the Danish galliot Der Engel Rafael under the command of Skipper Ehlert Kongsted.

Mathaeus Machaley [sic] and his wife Rosina are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Conrad Lackmann & Anna Elisabeth Schneck were married on 14 July 1766 at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.

Konrad Lackmann, a farmer, and his wife Anna 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.

The parish register of Schilling records the birth of Heinrich Peter Lackmann, son of Konrad Lackmann & Anna Elisabeth Schneck, on 29 July 1767 on the Volga River near Saratov while en route to the colonies.