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Lohmann (Laub)

Ludwig Lohmann, a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Anna Maria are recorded on the 1767 census of Laub in Household No. 38. They had settled there on 19 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Ludwig Lohmann came from the German village of Griesheim in the Frankfurt am Main area.

Hepfner

Johann Georg Hepfner, a single miller (Müller), settled in the Volga German colony of Laub on 15 September 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 65.

The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Hepfner came from the German village Zwickau in the Sachsen (Saxony) region.

Hannickel

Nikolaus Hannickel, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the snow-brig Frei Gebruder under the command of Skipper Minzberger.

Nicolaus Hanikel [sic] is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

The widow and sons of Nikolaus Hannickel are recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb17 along with a note that son Michael Christoph is working in the colony of Straub and son Heinrich Christoph is working in the colony of Beauregard.

Hepp / Herr (Laub)*

Widow Anna Hepp is recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb37.

The agricultural census attached to the 1798 census records her surname as Herr.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family (either Hepp or Herr) among the Volga German colonies.

Lang (Näb)*

Widow Elisabeth Lang and her children (Maria, age 17¼; Anna, age 10½; Johann Georg, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.

The single Johann Gottfried Lang is recorded on the Oranienbaum passenger list entry immediately preceeding Elisabeth and her children. The transport list records that he is the son of Widow Elisabeth Lang.

Klaus (Näb)

Johann Karl Klaus and his wife Margaretha are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 118 along with a number of other families who settled in the colony of Näb.

Orphan Johannes Klaus (age 12), presumed to be a son of Johann Karl Klaus, is recorded on the 1798 census of Näb in Household No. Nb35 along with Johannes Schreiber and his family. A note on the 1798 census records that Johannes Klaus is living in the colony of Kind.

Keller (Näb)

Bernhard Keller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Näb in Household No. Nb39 along with a note that he has remarried and is living in the colony of Zürich.

His divorced wife Gertrude is recorded on the 1798 census of Näb in Household No. Nb40 along with a note that she and her illegitimate children are living in the colony of Reinwald where she has been hired to work.

Feller (Näb)

Johann[es] Feller, a single farmer, and his brother Johann [Georg] (age 16) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Joh. Fehler and his brother Joh. Georg (age 17¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johannes Feller, a linen weaver (Leineweber), his wife Anna, and brother [Johann] Georg (age 17) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 42.

Winter (Müller)

According to a publication by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia titled "File on Those Colonists Departing in 1773; also about their dispatch to Saratov under escort of Kontora Cavalry Seargeant-Major Gomolka and the discharge of several colonists upon payment; No. 25882," the family of Martin Winter was from the German village of Neuhausen.