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Schreier*

Jakob Preuss, a farmer, his wife Sophia, and children (Anton [Schreier], age 19; Barbara, age 16; Andreas, age 15; Johann, age 9; Lorenz, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Heidemann.

Schuller (Lauwe)*

Gottfried Schuller, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Lauwe on 5 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 34.

The 1767 census records that Gottfried Schuller came from the German village of Frommenhausen in the Württemberg region.

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

Schul(t)z (Lauwe)*

Anna Katharina Schulz, widow of Johann Heinrich Schulz (a beer brewer (Bierbrauer) who had died during the journey from Oranienbaum to Saratov under the command of Oberlieutenant Dittmar), and his daughter Henrietta (age 15) are recorded on the 1767 census of Lauwe in Household No. 54. They had settled there on 5 September 1767.

The 1767 census records that Anna Katharina Schulz came from the German village of Goldberg in the region of Preußen (Prussia).

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

Schuster (Keller)*

Kaspar Schuster, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.

Caspar Schuster is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Kaspar Schuster, a single farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Lauwe on 5 September 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 56 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Keller in 1768.

Sitzenstock

Friedrich Sitzenstock and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Lauwe in Household No. Lw05.

Friedrich's son Paul and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Lauwe in Household No. 7.

Fen(t)zel

The widow and children of Konrad Fenzel are recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Households No. Sm24 & Sm26.

The descendants of Konrad Fenzel are recorded on the 1834 census of Seelmann in Households No. 12, 51, 55, 85, & 105.

[Some early translations record this surname as Wenzel, but later documents clearly record it as Fenzel.]

Chivanelo*

The death of Markus Chivanelo (born approximately 1787) in 1828 is recorded on the 1834 census of Preuss in Household No. 146.

Heinrich Chivanelo, son of Markus Chivanelo, and his wife are recorded on the 1850 census of Preuss in Household No. 165.

Heinrich Chivanelo and his wife are recorded on the 1857 census of Preuss in Household No. 208.

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