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Kaspar (Reinhard)*

Johann Kaspar, a farmer, and his wife Anna Rebekka settled in the Volga German colony of Reinhard on 25 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 24.

The 1767 census records that Johann Kaspar came from the German village of Rendsburg in the Holstein region.

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

Klinger*

David Klinger [erroneously transcribed as Sollinger], a farmer, and his wife Marianna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Maria Sophia under the command of Skipper Johann Bauert.

David Klinger, his wife Maria, and son Jacob (born en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Maria and the newborn Jakob died en route.

Kraus (Reinhard)*

Heinrich Kraus, a farmer, his wife Margaretha Elisabeth, and daughter Maria Katharina (age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Reinhard in Household No. 31. They had settled there on 15 October 1767.

The 1767 census records that Heinrich Kraus came from the German village of Anklam in the region of Pommern (Pomerania).

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

Lauber (Reinhard)*

Conrad Lauber (age 19) and his sisters (Eleonore, age 17; Anna Maria, age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Reinhard in Household No. 20 along with their stepfather Paul Heinrich Rolof.

The 1767 census does not record from where the Lauber siblings came.

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

Sansor*

Widow Dorothea Sansor, whose husband had been a craftsman (Handwerker), settled in the Volga German colony of Reinhard on 13 May 1767. She is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 27 along with a note that she is working as a day-laborer (Lohnarbeiter).

The 1767 census records that Dorothea Sansor came from the German town of Kiel in the Holstein region.

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

Burgardt (Reinwald)

Gottlieb Burgardt from Reinwald and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schwed in Household No. Sw18.

Gottlieb Burgardt and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Schwed in Household No. 20.

The death of Gottlieb Burgardt in 1837 is recorded on the 1850 census of Schwed in Household No. 41.

Eurich (Reinwald)

Johann Kaspar Eirich, son of Johann Georg Eirich & Anna Katharina Leinberger, was born 13 September 1746 in Stockhausen.

Kaspar Eurich and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Reinwald in Households No. Rw01, Rw17, and Rw42.

The death of Kaspar Eurich in 1805 recorded on the 1811 census of Reinwald in Household No. 17.

Johann Martin Eurich, son of Kaspar Eurich, is recorded on the 1811 census of Reinwald in Household No. 17 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Rosenheim.