Catharina Schmidt, daughter of Johannes Schmidt & Elisabeth Sprankel, was born 31 July 1733 in Queckborn.
Conrad Krüger & Catharina Schmidt from Queckborn were married on 11 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen. [See Krieger Family.]
Konrad Krüger, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Anna Maria (age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Slon (Elephant) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Johann Friedrich Machelmann (age 20) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 104 along with his stepfather Christian Peise.
It is not known in which colony this family settled.
The 1767 census does not record from where Johann Friedrich Machelmann came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Christian Peise, a farmer, and his wife Dorothea are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 104 along with stepson Johann Friedrich Machelmann (age 20).
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The 1767 census records that Christian Peise came from the German village of Zigeser [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Volga German families settled in Iosco County, Michigan.
Volga German families settled in and around Ainsworth, Nebraska.
1954 Location:
800 Sherman
Fort Morgan, Colorado
Current Location:
1215 W. Seventh Street
Fort Morgan, CO 80701
Phone: 970.867.5721
History:
Trinity Lutheran Church was founded in 1906 in Fort Morgan, Colorado.
Many Volga German families attend Trinity Lutheran.
A new church building was constructed in 1954.
In 2022, the congregation dedicated a new building on the west edge of Fort Morgan.
Johann Nikolaus Hirsch, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Teresia, age 3¼; Johann, age 1¼) 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.
Johann Nicolaus Hirsch, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Theresia, age 5; Johann, age 1) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Anna Maria and son Johann died in route.
Volga German families settled in and around Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Eltmann is a village located in the historical region of Lower Franconia.
Christoph Long, a farmer, and his wife Kunigunda are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 97. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Christoph Long came from the German village of Eltmann.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Long family among the Volga German colonies.