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Valentin Zöll [sic], his wife Magdalena, and daughters (Anna, age 17; Eva, age 13, Elisabeth, age 12; Maria, age 9; Anna, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.

Valentin San [sic], his wife Eva Magdalena, and daughters (Anna Martha, age 17; Eva Christina, age 16; Anna Elisa., age 14; Maria Elis., age 10; Anna Elisa., age 2½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Andreas Nikolaus Pilner, a linen weaver (Leineweber), his wife Louisa, and son Friedrich (age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. 64. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Andreas Nikolaus Pilner came from the German village of Silkerode.

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

Johann Friedrich Otto, a single farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 85 along with a note that he settled in the colony of Orlovskaya in 1768.

Friedrich Otto and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. Or27.

The 1767 census records that Johann Friedrich Otto came from the German village of Sollnitz [?].

Johann Jürgen Nickelsen & Maria Elisabeth Preiss were married 28 May 1766 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.

Heinrich [sic] Nickelsen and his wife Anna [sic] arrived at the port of Oranienbaum from Lübeck on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love and Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Georg Nickelsen, his wife Maria Elisabet., and daughter Elisabet. Friderica [sic] (age 8-days) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Franz Müller, a tailor, and his wife Susanna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

According to Rauschenbach, this is the same couple as the Christ. Leopoldt Müller and his wife Catharina who are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Widow Magdalena Muth is recorded on the 1798 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. Or44.

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

Gottfried Riemer & Anna Magdalena Batzel were married on 15 May 1766 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.

Gottfried Riemer, a carpenter (Zimmermann), and his wife Magdalena are recorded on the 1767 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. 42. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.

Gottfried Riemer and his descendants are recorded on the 1798 census of Orlovskaya in Households No. Or01 and Or31.

The 1767 census records that Gottfried Riemer came from the German region of Dessau.

Friedrich Schäfer and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. Or75.

The death of Friedrich Schäfer in 1831 is recorded on the 1834 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. 4.

In 1771, widow Leopoldina Glück left Boisroux and married Konrad Schwenk in Ernestinendorf. They are recorded on the 1798 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. Or33.

In 1787, Johann Heinrich Schwenk and his family moved from Ernestinendorf to Orlovskaya.

Leopoldina Schwenk and her family are recorded on the 1834 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. 51.