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Andreas Geizel [sic], his wife Johanna, and daughter Johanna (age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.

Widower Andreas Geisel, a cloth weaver (Tuchweber), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 59 along with a note that he settled in the colony of Schaffhausen in 1768.

The 1767 census records that Andreas Geisel came from the German village of Grohnde.

Ludwig Martin, a farmer, his wife Anna, and son Konrad (age 17) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Heyer.

The son Konrad Martin may be the same person recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou.

Konrad Martin, a single farmer (age 18), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 60.

It is not known in which colony he settled.

Sisters [a] Kanetta [Johannetta] Klein and [b] Katharina Klein (age 19) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Friede (Peace) under the command of Skipper Hans Karck.

[a] Widow Maria Johannetta Pförner [née Klein] and her daughter Regina (age 6-months) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou (No. 30) along with a note that they settled in the Volga German colony of Zürich in 1768.

Joseph Karera, a single tin worker (Zinnarbeiter), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 64.

It is not known in which colony he settled.

The 1767 census records that Joseph Karera came from the German village of Menualt [?].

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

Widow Anna Mingelbach is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 65.

She is believed to be recorded on the 1798 census of Basel in Household No. Bs27 as the wife of Kaspar Triller.

The 1767 census records that Anna Mingelbach came from the German village of Kransburg.

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

Konrad Jackel, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Katharina, age 10; Johann, age 7; Margaretha, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Konrad Jackel, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and daughters (Katharina, age 11; Margaretha, age 6) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 73.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

Johann Jakob Elsasser, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughters (Jakobina, age 20; Elisabeth, age 18; Dorothea, age 5) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 72.

Jakob Elsasser (age 55), a saddler (Sattler), and his daughter Katharina Elisabeth (age 21) along with Katharina Elisabeth's husband Philipp Schulz (age 24) and their daughter Katharina Dorothea Schulz (age ¼) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 129. [See Schulz Family.]

Christian Bote, a single tanner (Gerber), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 44.

It is not known in which colony he settled.

The 1767 census records that Christian Bote came from the German village of Großenhain.

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