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Andreas Baumgärtner, son of Andreas & Maria Sybilla Baumgärtner, was baptized on 21 November 1717 in Schwaigern, west of Heilbronn. He married Anna Maria Catharina Meder, and they have a number of children born in Schwaigern including Maria Johanna (born 12 May 1751) and Maria Justina (born 3 October 1754).

The family immigrated first to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) in 1762, and then in 1763 joined the move to Russia, settling in the colony of Dobrinka on 15 April 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 25.

Johann Ludwig Bastron, son of Joaques Laurent Pastron and Johanna Schmidt, was born 29 May 1740 in Büdingen. He married in Büdingen on 5 May 1762 to Johanetta Elisabeth Lang, daughter of Johann Peter Lang, the chief miller in Laubach, Germany, and his wife Marie Christine Best.

The Bastron (Pastron) family were French Huguenots. Jacques Laurent (Jacob Lorentz) Pastron, a stocking weaver from Offenbach, Germany, was the son of Jacques Pastron and Elisabeth Humbert of Offenbach, Germany.

Heinrich Barthelmeß, son of Hans Barthelmeß & Anna Margaretha Künrich, was born in about 1660 in the German village of Wüstensachsen. He married 21 January 1690 in Gersfeld to Eva Richter, daughter of Hans Richter & Magdalena Hechenhan. Eva Richter had been baptized in Gersfeld on 7 August 1668. Heinrich died and was buried in Dresselhof on 16 September 1738. Eva died there on 9 July 1740.

There appear to be two separate Bär families in Yagodnaya Polyana

Johann Konrad Bär was born in Nidda, Hessen, Germany. He married Anna Katharina Erck, daughter of Johann Christoph Erck & Anna Margaretha Runck. She was born 26 December 1721 in Nidda.

Johann Nikolaus Bähr (also spelled Bär) was born in 1714 in Ober Schwarzbach (near Heidelberg). He married in Schönbrunn on 23 April 1743 to Anna Margaretha Weber. She was born 13 September 1711 in Unter Schönbrunn. Their son Johann Philipp was born in Ober Schwarzbach on 17 July 1745.

The family immigrated in Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Fridericia on 1 May 1760. Anna Margaretha died there. They are last recorded among the Danish colonies on 26 April 1763.

The family joined the migration to Russia.

The baptisms of two children to Johann Wendel & Gertraudt Barthuly have been located in the parish register of Ruchheim: (1) Balthasar, baptized 20 August 1729; and (2) Apollonia, baptized 15 May 1733. The family immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein).

(1) Balthasar Barthuly married on 10 May 1756 in Lampertheim to Anna Margaretha Grösser, daughter of Caspar & Anna Margaretha Grösser. She was born in Lampertheim on 2 March 1726.

Kaspar Axthelm, a sock weaver from Überau, married Elisabeth (surname unknown), the widow of Georg Heinrich Buxmann who had died on 13 January 1760 in Überau. The parish register in Überau records that Axthelm "took off for Russia in the night with his wife and 4 step-children, leaving behind many debts, a house, and goods."

Peter Auer was born about 1737 in Contwig, 6 kilometers east of Zweibrücken in what today is the German state of Rheinland-Pfalz. He married in the Catholic Church there on 5 May 1761 to Maria Magdalena Brungardt. [See Brungardt Family.] They had two sons, each born in Contwig: (1) Franz Peter, baptized on 5 March 1762; and (2) Simon Peter, born on 28 February 1765.

Soon after their second boy was born, Peter and his family immigrated to Russia, and the youngest son, Simon Peter, died on the journey.

Nicolaus Aselborn, son of Johannes Aselborn & Elisabeth Siehr, was born in 1718 in Schwemlingen, near the intersection of the borders of Germany, France, and Luxembourg, about 20 miles south of Trier in what today is the German State of Saarland.

Philipp Anton Artzer, son of Karl & Theresia Artzer, married in Wiesbach on 26 February 1743 to Maria Catharina Götte, daughter of Johannes & Anna Maria Götte.

They had several children born in Wiesbach among whom are: (1) Anna Elisabeth, born 11 November 1751; (2) Balthasar, born 12 February 1754; and (3) Katharina Barbara, born 15 August 1757.

Maria Catharina Artzer née Götte died, and Philipp Anton Artzer remarried in Wiesbach on 27 October 1761 to Maria Margaretha Brungard, daughter of Franz Brungard. [See Brungard Family.]