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Johannes Usener [sic] from Eichelhain & Anna Eliesabetha Eifert from Reppershaÿn in the area of Riedesel were married on 26 May 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.

Johann Usinger and his wife [Anna] Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Стрельна (Strelna - a village near St. Petersburg) under the command of Midshipman Login Sornev.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Müller on 16 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 19.

There are two Trippel families from Nieder-Eschbach that migrated to Russia. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

(1) Johannes Trippel was born in 1725 in Nieder-Eschbach, today a district in the city of Frankfurt (am Main). He married Ursula Bechtel who had been born in 1726.

Christoph Trin was born on 6 July 1739 in the village of Herbstein, between Giessen and Fulda. He married there on 29 October 1761 to Maria Elisabetha Fleischer. She had been born there on 7 June 1740. They have one daughter born before they left Germany: Anna Maria Fridericka (born 21 August 1763 in Herbstein).

Two Uhrich families from Groß-Umstadt immigrated to Russia. There relationship to each other, if any, needs additional research.

(1) Johann Bernhard Urig, son of Bernhardt Urig & Anna Margaretha Weber, was born 26 January 1748 in Groß-Umstadt.

He arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named St. Johannes (Saint John) under the command of Skipper Carstens Stahl along with his sister Maria Katharina and her husband Konrad Grass. [See Grass Family.]

Barbara Rosina Traut was born in Herbstein, between Giessen and Fulda, on 16 September 1739.

Barbara Rosina Traut, a single woman, arrived from Lübeck on 14 August 1766 aboard a 2-masted merchant ship named Die Jungfer Frederika (The Maiden Frederika) under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.

Barbara Rosina Traut is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony she settled.

The parish register of Schriesheim records the birth of Hans Velten Traub, son of Andreas Traub & Anna Schlottenhöfer, on 25 July 1734.

Valentin Traub and his wife, Eva, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.

Johannes Trupp, son of Johann Heinrich Trupp from Langsdorf & Anna Catharina Bemmersheim, was born 26 November 1752. Johann Heinrich Trupp died in Wohnbach, Germany.

Widow Katharina Trupp and her son Johann (age 14) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.

Cathrina Trapp [sic] and her son Johannes (age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Jacob Toews, son of Jacob Toews (1806-1864), was born 26 June 1838 in Wotzlaff near Danzig.  [Wotzlaff today is located in Poland and known as Wocławy.]  He married 15 March 1860 in Prussia to Maria Wiebe, daughter of Christian Wiebe (b. 1805) & Catharina Andres (1813-1881). She was born 16 June 1838 in Neuendorf, Gross Werder, Prussia.

Jacob, Maria, and their children moved to Köppental.

Johann Konrad Töpfer, son of Johann Heinrich Töpfer & Anna Gela Rosenkrantz, was born on 16 August 1736 in Schellbach, southwest of Remsfeld. He married Anna Martha Reichmann of nearby Remsfeld on 30 September 1765.

Konrad Töpffer, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Elisabeth Margaretha Kader, daughter of Johannes Leonhard & Anna Maria Kader, was born on 1 July 1741 and baptized on 3 July 1741 in Höchst.

Anna Margaretha Kather of Höchst in the area of Erbach & Johann Adam Thürnoff from Eschen were married 28 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen. Other spellings of this surname in various records include Dirolf, Thüruff, and Tyrolff.