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Christoph Konrad, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.

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

Christoph Conrad, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies in Household No. 9 along with stepson Gottlieb Walter (age 5).

It is not known in which colony they settled.

Widow Anna Walder [sic] and her son Gottlieb (age 4½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.

Anna Walder [sic] and her son Gottlieb (age 4½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Gottlieb Walter (age 5) is recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies in Household No. 9 along with his stepfather Christoph Konrad.

Heinrich Schiel, a silk weaver (Seidenweber), his wife Eva, and children (Christina, age 12; Johann, age 9; Anna, age 7; David, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Heinrich Schiel, his wife Eva, and children (Christina, age 12; Johann, age 10; Anna, age 4; David, age 1½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Johann & David died in route.

Widow Anna Maria Beier is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 64 along with a note that she settled in the colony of Schönchen in 1768.

The 1767 census records that Anna Maria Beier came from the German regino of Jena [in Thüringen?].

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

Ludwig Schuster, his wife Karolina, and daughter Anna (age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.

Widower Ludwig Schuster, a tailor (Schneider), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census in Household No. 60.

It is not known in which colony he settled.

The 1767 census records that Ludwig Schuster came from the German village of Westerburg.

Peter Wels, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Heinrich) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.

Peter Wels, a farmer, and his wife Anna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 49.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census records that Peter Wels came from the German village of Thalhausen.

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