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Kaspar Schröder and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Biberstein in Household No. Bb24.

Heinrich Schwartz and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Biberstein in Household No. Bb40.

Johann Seibert, his wife Katharina, and children (Johannes, age 13; Anna, age 4; Elisabeth, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder.

Johann Seibert and his son Johann (age 13) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

This family may have settled in the colony of Biberstein because a number of other families with whom they were traveling settled there.

Johann Renier and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hockerberg in Household No. Hb15.

The death of Johannes Renier in 1818 is recorded on the 1834 census of Hockerberg in Household No. 34.

Johann Rausch, a farmer, his wife Christina, son Johann (age ½), and servant Johann [Rausch?] (age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson.

Johannes Rausch, his wife Catrina [sic], and sons [sic] (Johann Georg, age 20; Johann Conrad, age ½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that young Johann Conrad died in route.

In 1786, Philipp Müller and his family moved from Hockerberg to Katharinenstadt.

Philipp Müller and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka088.

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

Christoph Koch, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and childen (Jakob, age 12; Michael, age 9; Hermann, age 7; Margaretha, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Christoph Koch, his wife Katharina Elisabeth, and sons (Jacob, age 12; Michael, age 9; Hermann, age 7, died en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Heinrich Hoffmann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hockerberg in Household No. Hb02.

There are 2 Heibel families from Hockerberg. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

(1) Johann Heinrich Heibel and his family, including his mother, are recorded on the 1798 census of Hockerberg in Household No. Hb07.

Kaspar Heibel from Hockerberg and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. 85.

(2) Leonhard Heibel from Hockerberg and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Näb in Household No. Nb07.

Gabriel Autzel [sic], a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Schröder.

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

Gabriel Auze [sic], a single farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 76.

This man is presumed to be the same as Gabriel Hautzel whose family is recorded on the 1798 census of Hockerberg in Households No. Hb08 & Hb18.