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There are two Werner families in Susannental. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

(1) Johann [Heinrich Werner] (age 17) and his brother Nikolaus [Werner] (age 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oraninenbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the Love & Unity under the command of Thomas Fairfax along with their [step-]father Johann [Peter] Braun and family.

Heinrich Fisch, a wool carder (Wollschläger), his wife Peternel, and daughter Guta [?] are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 93. They had settled there on 5 March 1767.

The 1767 census records that Heinrich Fisch came from the village of Veenendaal [in the Netherlands].

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

Johann Fiander, a weaver, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Johann Fiander and his wife Cecilia [sic] are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Georg Engelhardt, a weaver (Weber), his wife Anna, and daughter Elisabeth (age 6-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 63. They had settled there on 27 August 1766.

In 1774, Johann Engelhardt left Katharinenstadt.

The 1767 census records that Georg Engelhardt came from the German village of Jakobsheim [?] in the Anspach region.

Valentin Euchler [sic], his wife Elisabeth, and the single Elisabeth [Batzel] (age 20) 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.

Valentin Euchler [sic], his wife Dorothea, and maid [?] Dorot. Elisab. Batzel are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Adam Engelstädter, a cloth weaver (Tuchweber), and his wife Elisabeth Wagner settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 38.

Widower Adam Engelstädter is recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka046.

The 1767 census records that Johann Adam Engelstädter came from the German village of Wasselheimburg in the Strassburg region.

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

Lorenz Belenski and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka109.

On the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt, there is an Anna Belenski recorded in Household No. 59 as the wife of Thomas Koch.

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

Orphan Johannes Flach (age 18) is recorded on the 1767 census of Laub in Household No. 31 along with his stepfather Johannes Engelmann. They had settled in Laub on 19 August 1767.

Christoph Flach, son of the deceased Johannes Flach, is recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb51.

Philipp Flach, believed to be the son of Christoph Flach, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Jost in Household No. 45.

The 1767 census does not record from where Johannes Flach came.