VGI Updates

The baptism of Maria Barbara Paul, daughter of Peter & Maria Katharina Paul of Gehlweiler, is recorded in the parish register of Gemünden on 15 April 1744.

Johann Adam Söther from Schwartzerden in the area of Baden and Maria Barbara Paul, daughter of Peter Paul from Gehlweiler, were married on 5 June 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen. [See Söder Family.]

Widower Valentin Dinger, a farmer, and his daughters (Kunigunda, age 23; Margaretha, age 17½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.

Philipp Heil (age 23), a blacksmith (Schmied), his wife Kunigunde [Dinger] (age 24), and her sister Margaretha [Dinger] (age 17½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 97. [See Heil Family.]

Kunigunda Heil née Dinger and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf05.

Christoph Jäger, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian pink named Vologda [an historic Russian city] under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev.

Christopher Jäger (age 20), a farmer, and his [new] wife Anna Katharina (age 24) are recorded on the 1767 census of Krasnoyar in Household No. 102. They had arrived in Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767.

In 1788, Christoph Jäger and his family moved to the Caucasus.

Anna Margaretha Bieber arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian pink named Vologda [an historic Russian city] under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev along with her sister Elisabeth and brother-in-law Johann Heinrich Kinzel. [See Kinzel Family.]

Anna Margaretha [Bieber] is recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 205 along with her sister Elisabeth and brother-in-law Johann Heinrich Kinzel. They had arrived in Norka on 2 September 1767.