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Catharina Bender and Anna Barbara Bender are sisters from Düdelsheim.

(1) Catharina Bender has an [illegitimate?] son Johann Jost Bender who was baptized in the village of Düdelsheim on 23 September 1740.

He married there on 11 March 1766 to Anna Margaretha, daughter of Stephan Dörr. She had been baptized on 21 April 1742 in Hüttengesäß.

Jost Bender, a farmer, and his wife arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard a packet-boat under the command of Midshipman Mankensey.

Claudius Bernhardt was born in 1723 in Narich, Choren, France. Nikolaus [sic] Bernhard, a farmer, his wife Anna Christina, and children (Georg Sebastian, age 12; Eva Barbara, age 7; Anton, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the galliot Johannes under the command of Skipper Stahl.

Johann Philipp Bessinger was born in 1721 in Raibach. He married to Anna Apollonia Gehrisch on 03 May 1753 in the Lutheran Church in Reichenbach, northeast of Bensheim. She was a daughter of Anton Gehrisch (born in 1731).Johann Philipp and his wife had four children, each baptized in Reichenbach: (1) Andreas (baptized 08 December 1754); (2) Katharina (baptized 10 June 1757); (3) Johann Georg (baptized 12 September 1761); and (4) Johann Peter (baptized 28 July 1765).

Johann Henrich Bickelhaupt, son of Jakob Bickelhaupt & Magdalena Blumenschein, was born 15 September 1719 in Ober-Gersprenz. He married on 31 March 1756 in Gronau to Elisabetha Catharina Burger, daughter of Johann Adam Burger & Anna Catharina Falkenstein and widow of Johann Philipp Meid. Elisabetha Catharina Burger had been born 14 November 1727 in Mittershausen. [See Burger Family.]

Konrad Bischof, son of Johann Wilhelm Bischof & Anna Catharina Machlaid, was born 15 May 1721 in Zwingenberg and baptized there on 18 May 1721.

Konrad Bischof married in Zwingenberg on 7 April 1745 to Elisabetha Catharina Demler, daughter of Johann Wendel Demler & Anna Catharina Hechler of Ober-Beerbach. She had been born 24 March 1718 in Ober-Beerbach.

There are two Bitter families from the village of Arheilgen that migrated to the Volga German colony of Lauwe. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

(1) Johann Peter Bötter, son of Johann Heinrich Bötter & Anna Gertraud Eckel, was born about 1706, probably in Arheilgen, today a district in the north of the city of Darmstadt, in Hesse. He married on 18 December 1744 in the Evangelical Church of Arheilgen to Anna Barbara Heidelbach, daughter of Johann Heinrich Heidelbach.

Johann Peter Blumenschein, son of Johann Peter Blumenschein & Maria Elisabetha Rebscher, was born 24 May 1707 in Reichelsheim. He married 4 May 1728 in Reichelsheim to Maria Susanna Pegius, daughter of Johann Philipp Pegius. She had been baptized 12 August 1711 in Reichelsheim.

Johann Heinrich Beckel married in Gelnhaar on 12 December 1747 to Anna Margaretha Appel.

Andreas & Sophia Margaretha Bonacker had four known children: (1) Catharina Henrica Margaretha, born in Fauerbach [vor der Höhe] and baptized on 29 January 1746 in the Evangelical Church in Münster, 24 kilometers southeast of Frankfurt; (2) Johannes Conrad, also born in Fauerbach [vor der Höhe] and baptized on 2 April 1751 in Münster; (3) Agnessa, born on 1 November 1753 and baptized on 4 November 1753 in the Evangelical Church in Grossen-Linden, about 11 kilometers south of Giessen; and (4) Christina Juliana, born on 30 July 1761 and also baptized in Grossen-Linden on 2 August 1761.

Johann Heinrich Borgdorf was one of Napoleon's soldiers who was captured by the Russians and resettled to the Volga German colonies following the War of 1812. He was born on 24 October 1786 in Preisstadt, Westfalen (Westphalia). This location has not been confirmed because such a place (Preisstadt) does not exist, but records to indicate that he was from Westphalia.

He is recorded on the 1834 Census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. 82. Records in Stahl am Tarlyk indicate that he died there on 19 November 1854.