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Peter Rübke and his stepchildren (Maria Louisa, Johann Jakob, and Anna Dorothea Krug) settled in the Volga German colony of Kratzke on 7 August 1766.  They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 9.  Peter did not have any surving male descendants, and this surname does not continue among the Volga German colonies.

The 1767 census records that he was from the city of Bremen.

Johann Heinrich Reich, a tailor (Schneider), his wife Elisabeth Katharina (age 20), and daughter Friedrika (age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kratzke in Household No. 23. They had arrived in Kratzke on 7 August 1766.

The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Reich came from the Polish village of Rabitsch [?].

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

Heinrich Samuel Niedens (age 33), a shoemaker (Schuhmacher), his wife Katharina Dorothea (age 30), and daughter Anna Maria Katharina (age 4-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kratzke in Household No. 43. They had arrived in Kratzke on 8 May 1767. Also recorded with them in 1767 is Anna Margaretha Foos (age 5), adopted daughter of Johann Jakob Foos who is in the colony of Schuck. [See Foos Family.]

In 1788, Michael Gottlieb Niedens and his family moved from Kratzke to Müller.

The births of five children born to Theobald & Elisabeth Barbara Schneider have been located in Herschberg: (1) Johann Adam, born 5 April 1756, baptized 6 April 1756; (2) Johann Valentin, born 22 July 1757, baptized 23 July 1757; (3) Georg Jacob, born 9 July 1759, baptized 10 July 1759; (4) Anna Margaretha, born 24 October 1761, baptized 25 October 1761; and (5) Anna Ottila, born 4 April 1765, baptized 5 April 1765. 

Nikolaus Schneider, a fabric weaver (Stoffweber), his wife Maria Katharina, son Johann Friedrich (age ½), and stepson Johann Heinrich [surname not recorded] (age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kratzke in Household No. 6. They had settled there on 7 August 1766.

The 1767 Kratzke census records that this Schneider family is from Salzwedel in Brandenburg.

Johann Wilhelm Schröder, a soldier (Soldat), his wife Intera [?], and children (Samuel Gottfried, age 18; Maria Eleonora, age 11; Karl Friedrich, age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kratzke in Household No. 24. They had arrived in Kratzke on 7 August 1766.

Samuel Gottfried Schröder and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kratzke in Household No. Kr27.

The death of Samuel Schröder in 1820 is recorded on the 1834 census of Kratzke in Household No. 41.

Heinrich Gideon (age 46), a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Dorothea Elisabeth (age 45), and son Johann Heinrich (age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Messer in Household No. 19. They had arrived in Messer on 7 July 1766.

Heinrich Gideon and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kratzke in Household No. Kr17.

The death of Heinrich Gideon in 1825 is recorded on the 1834 census of Kratzke in Household No. 29.

Georg Philipp Gideon from Kratzke and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Ährenfeld.