Johannes Schäfer, son of Hans Georg & Maria Magdalena Schäfer, was born 28 February 1696 in Michelbach. He married on 11 January 1724 Fränkisch-Crumbach to Anna Margaretha Flath, daughter of Friedrich Flath & Anna Eva Heusel. She had been born 26 May 1696 in Mümling-Grumbach. [Johannes Schäfer died 28 June 1772 and Anna Margaretha Flath Schäfer died 23 December 1762, both in Michelbach.]
Conrad Kern & Maria Amalia Peter [Petri] (both widowed) were married 29 July 1766 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Konrad Kern, a farmer, his wife Amalia, and children (Johann [Georg], age 17; Martin, age 13; Michael [Petri], age 13; Maria, age 11; Philipp [Petri], age 10¼) 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.
Since 1972, Hochhausen has been part of the Administrative unit of Haßmersheim.
Georg Adam Meyer, son of Johann Georg Meyer & Catharina Weidelich, was born 22 April 1721 in Weissach.
Georg Adam Meier, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and children (Johann Philipp Adam, age 15; Katharina, age 13; Georg Jakob, age 12; Johannes, age 9; Anna Dorothea, age 7; Maria Elisabeth, age 3) migrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Flensburg on 1 August 1761 where they registered on 3 August 1761. They eventually settled in the Danish colony of Friederichsthal.
They were dismissed from the Danish colonies on 6 June 1763 and joined the migration to Russia.
There are two Meier families that arrived in the Volga German colony of Shcherbakovka on 15 June 1767. It is not known whether they are related to each other. On the 1767 census, both families are recorded as being from Laudenberg.
(1) The death of Johann Peter Meier, son of Leonard Meier, is recorded on 16 April 1760 in the parish register of Altona [while in route to Denmark].
Alexander Meier, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof on 21 July 1766. Alexander, his wife Anna Katharina, and son Georg Michael (age 1) are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 45.
In 1794, Johann Christoph Meier moved from Dönhof to Kratzke.
Desdendants of this Meier family (Johannes, born in 1835 in Dönhof) later moved to the daughter colony of Gnadenfeld.
The 1767 census records that Alexander Meier came from the German region of Württemberg.
Gottlieb Kalebi [sic], a single farmer, arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 April 1766 aboard a two-masted merchant ship named Der Kleine Andreas (The Little Andrew) under the command of Skipper Jacob Jensen.
Gottlieb Koleber was married at least twice. In 1788, widow Eva Barbara Koleber and her children moved from Hussenbach to Kratzke.
Johann Michael Bork and his son Jakob Rudolf (age 5½) settled in the Volga German colony of Schilling where they are recorded on the supplement to the 1775 census in Household No. 5. Notes accompanying the 1775 census record that Bork was a maker of lace and braids, but because of this "great weight" is in poor health.
In 1788, Jakob Bork moved from Schilling to Mariental.
Johann Kaufmann, a weaver, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
He, his wife Elisabeth, and their children (Anna Maria, age 5½; Johannes, age 3) are recorded recorded on a supplement to the 1775 census of Schilling in Household No. 3.
Johannes Kaufmann (age 64) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schilling in Household No. Sg022.
Friedrich Kehm, his wife Elisabeth, and their children (Karolina, age 9; Maria Katharina, age 4½; Tobias Kaspar, age 2½) are recorded on an appendix to the 1775 census of the Volga German colony of Schilling in Household No. 3. Notes accompanying the 1775 census record that Kehm is an apprentice merchant and bookkeeper.