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Philipp Hammel from Preuss and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk20.

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

Johann[es] Arnhold, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and [step-]children [surname: Sander] (Kaspar, age 18; Eva, age 16; Barbara, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 28. They had settled there on 15 June 1767.

In 1795, widower Johannes Arnhold moved from Pfeifer to Semenovka.

Johannes Arnhold from Pfeifer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Semenovka in Household No. Se09.

The 1767 census records that Johann[es] Arnhold came from the German village of Aschaffenburg.

Joseph Bähr and his wife Anna Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Pfeifer on 15 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 45.

The 1767 census does not record from where Joseph Bähr came.

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

Johannes Gebhardt and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf53.

The death of Johannes Gebhardt in 1827 is recorded on the 1834 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 110.

Georg Ulrichhäuser [sic], servant of Sebastian Wagner, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the ship Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.

Georg Erickshausen [sic], servant of Sebastian Wagner, are is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Georg Erlichhäuser [sic], a single farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Pfeifer on 22 August 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 109.

Michael Busch and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf50.

Valentin Elheim, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Anna Barbara, age 19; Dorothea, age 17; Balthasar, age 10; Kunigunda, age 7; Adam, age 5; Christina, age ¾) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the ship Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.

[Johann] Georg Eberle, a farmer, his wife Barbara, son Georg (age 2½), and sister Eva Klara (age 21) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard the pink Lev under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.

Johann Georg Eberle, a farmer, his wife Anna Barbara, and son Johannes (age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 96. They had settled there on 20 August 1767.

Johann Bleier arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.

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

Johann Bleier, a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 38. The 1767 census records that Johann Bleier came from the German village of Meckendorf.

Georg Blei [sic] and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hummel in Household No. Hm11 along with his daughter and her family.