Jacob Miltenberger married Anna Maria Schmitt on 8 July 1755 in the Catholic Church of Alsheim, a village between Mainz and Worms. They had one son, Johann Georg, who was baptized on 5 October 1756 in the Alsheim church.
Jakob Mildenberger, a farmer, his wife Anna, and son Johann (age 10½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Johann Grapp.
Johannes Metzler, a son of Heinrich Metzler & Kunigunda Bötigler, was born on 14 July 1746, and baptized on 17 July 1746 in the Langstadt Evangelical Church, north of Gross-Umstadt in Hessen. Johannes married to Catharina Elisabetha (surname unknown). They immigrated to Russia, departing from the port of Lübeck by the ship Die Junger Friederika with the skipper Christian Korsholm, and arriving in Oranienbaum, Russia, on 18 June 1766.
Christoph Maier, son of Ulrich & Margaretha Maier, was born on 17 May 1732 in Eisingen, southeast of Karlsruhe.
He married on 29 April 1755 in nearby Berghausen to Elisabeth Margaretha Reichenbacher, daughter of Jacob & Catharina Reichenbacher. She had been born on 26 March 1732 in Reichenbach.
The baptisms of three children born to Christoph Maier & Elisabeth Margaretha Reichenbacher in Söllingen have been located: (1) Margaretha, born 26 April 1754; (2) Georg Michael, born 15 June 1758; and (3) Johann Christoph, born 29 December 1760.
Johann Michael Meyer was born in 1710 in Rohrbach, a village in the district of Heidelberg. He married Anna Maria Schambach.
The marriage of Christian Maÿ & Anna Elisabeth Krimp, daughter of Melchior Krimp, is recorded in the parish register of the Lutheran Church in Lindheim on 29 January 1766.
Christian Maÿ, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the galliot Die Fortuna under the command of Skipper Peter Stahl.
Christian Maÿ, a farmer, and his [new] wife Anna Maria are recorded on the 1767 census of Balzer in Household No. 71. They had arrived in Balzer on 18 June 1767.
Justus Lotz married Anna Elisabetha Bramm on 25 September 1749 in the Evangelical Church of Alsfeld, about 47 kilometers west of Giessen.
They had four children, each baptized in Alsfeld: (1) Justus, born 19 December 1750 and baptized 20 December 1750; (2) Georg Dieterich, born 23 March 1753 and baptized 25 March 1753; (3) Johann Heinrich, born and baptized on 26 August 1755; and (4) Maria Elisabetha, born 12 October 1757 and baptized on 13 October 1757.
Johann Hermann Knaus, son of the deceased Johann Heinrich Knaus of Düdelsheim, and Anna Margaretha Hoffmann, daughter of the deceased Johann Heinrich Hoffmann and Catharina Schäffer, were married in Hochst near Büdingen on 7 February 1737. Anna Margaretha had been baptized in Hochst on 3 June 1712.
Johann Adam Hallstein, son of Hanss Georg & Maria Elisabeth Hallstein, was born on 23 December 1724 and baptized in Höchst im Odenwald on 26 December 1724. He married there on 23 November 1751 to Eva Maria Neff, daughter of Christian Neff.
Johannes Gerlach, son of Johannes & Anna Elisabetha Gerlach, was born 13 November 1706 in Düdelsheim.
Johannes Gerlach married Anna Maria [surname unknown] on 12 March 1733.
Joh. Christophel Gerlach, son of Johannes & Anna Maria Gerlach, was baptized in Aulendiebach on 2 October 1735. He married there on 4 October 1763 to Anna Sybilla Diehl, daughter of Johannes & Wilhelmine Diehl. She was baptized on 7 March 1739 in nearby Wenigs.
They had a daughter, Wilhelmina, who was baptized in Aulendiebach on 26 November 1763.
Several Götz families from the German village of Eichelsdorf arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Reders. They all settled in the Volga German colony of Yagodnaya Polyana on 16 September 1767.