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Johann Meier, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Jenßen.

Johann Heinrich Meyer and his wife Anna Elisabeth are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Heinrich Meier, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 51. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.

Heinrich Meier from Basel and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka139.

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

Christian Bohn, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.

Christian Bohn is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.

Widower Christian Bohn, a farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 50. He had arrived there on 3 August 1767.

It is not known in which Volga German colony Christian Bohn eventually settled.

Johann Schulz, a farmer, and his wife Anna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 45. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Johann Schulz came from the German village of Saubach.

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