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Daniel Berschauer, a sackcloth weaver (Sackleinenweber), his wife Katharina Margaretha, and son Daniel are recorded on the 1767 census of Kratzke in Household No. 4. They had arrived in Kratzke on 7 August 1766.

Daniel Berschauer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kratzke in Household No. Kr14.

The surname is erroneously recorded as Burgardt on the 1767 census as well as the 1798 census.  However, thereafter, the children of this family are recorded clearly as Berschauer.

Johann Adam Bockbarger [sic] & Maria Catharina Roszbach were married on 18 July 1765 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.

Johann Adam Boxberger (age 48), a blacksmith (Schmied), his wife Maria Katharina (age 32), and a daughter Anna Margaretha (age 6) settled in the Volga German colony of Kratzke on 8 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 37.

Georg Friedrich Boxberger from Kratzke and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Ährenfeld.

Georg Fabrizius (age 31), a carpenter (Tischler), settled in the Volga German colony of Kratzke on 7 August 1766.  He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 32.

The 1798 census of Kratzke records that his son, Christoph Jakob, is working in the colony of Bauer.

Johann Friedrich Fabrizius and Georg Heinrich Fabrizius from Kratzke and their families are recorded on the 1857 census of Ährenfeld.

Various descendant lines of this family use the spellings of Fabrizius and Fabricius and Fabricus.

Jakob and Susanna Elisabeth Herder from the Kurpfalz immigrated with their three children (Eva Barbara, age 14; Nikolaus, age 10; and Elisabeth, age 7) to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) in 1760.  They are last recorded in the Danish colonies on 7 January 1765. They joined the migration to Russia.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Beideck where they are recorded on the 1775 census in Household No. 26.

The Eichhorns record that Jakob Herder came from "Amte Lindenfels, Kurpfalz."

Johann Friedrich Ruf, a day laborer [Tagelöhner] and son-in-law of Christian Benner, migrated from Württemberg to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in the city of Flensburg on 9 June 1762.

The parish register of Havetoft [Denmark] records the marriage on 21 August 1762 of Johann Friedrich Roos [sic] to Euphrosina Barbara Boelern.

The parish register of Havetoft [Denmark] again records the baptism on 28 August 1762 of Johann Christoph Russ [sic], son of Johann Friedrich Russ [sic] & Barbara Euphrosina Boeler [sic].

Hieronymus Ruf, a farmer from the Pfalz, and his wife Theresia 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.

Hyoronymus [sic] Ruff and his wife Theresia are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Dietel where their children are recorded on the 1798 census.

Heinrich Engel, recorded as a mason from Neunhof, and his wife Catharina settled in the Volga German colony of Beauregard on 27 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 19.

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

Johann Georg Eichhorn, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.

Georg Eichhorn is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

He arrived in the Volga German colony of Urbach on 3 July 1767 where he is recorded with his new wife Maria Margaretha on the 1767 census in Household No. 54.

Widow Maria Margaretha Eichhorn is recorded on the 1798 census of Urbach in Household No. Ur20.