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Kuhl*

Anton Kuhl, his wife Anna, and daughters (Anna, age 6; Elisabeth, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson.

Anthon [sic] Kuhl, his wife Anna Margaretha, and daughters (Juliana, age 7; Elisabeth, age 5) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anton Kuhl came from the German region of Darmstadt.

Koch (Yagodnaya Polyana-2)*

Johannes Koch married in Eichelsdorf on 18 March 1746 to Anna Gertrude Wild, daughter of Johann Heinrich Wild from Hatzfeld.

The baptisms of the following children born in Eichelsdorf to Johannes Koch and Anna Gertrude Wild are recorded in the parish register of Eichelsdorf: (1) Anna Elisabetha, born 27 July 1746, baptized 28 Jul 1746; (2) Anna Margaretha, born 17 February 1749, baptized 19 February 1749; (3) Anna Catharina, born 19 May 1751, baptized 20 May 1751; and (4) Johannes, born 21 December 1755, baptized 23 December 1755.

Burger (Kind)*

Johann Adam Burger, son of Ludwig Burger of Albersbach, married on 6 July 1726 in Rimbach to Anna Catharina Falkenstein, daughter of Hans Jacob Falkenstein of Mittershausen. She had been baptized 19 August 1703 in Mittershausen.