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Jasenski*

In 1796, Gottlieb Jasenski left Göbel.

Joseph Jasenski and his wife is recorded on the 1798 census of Göbel in Household No. Gb74 with a note that they are living in the mill on Shcherbakovka Creek.

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

Wagner (Nieder-Monjou)

The Johann Adam Wagner family that settled in Nieder-Monjou came from Wittgenborn, near Wächtersbach. The Wächtersbach Parish records report that Johann Adam Wagner, son of Catharina Wagner of Wittgenborn, and Anna Margareatha Protzmann, daughter of Wilhelm Protzmann, were married on 11 February 1754.

Hilgerd

Michael & Peter [sic] Hilgerd moved from Semenovka to Göbel.

Michael Hilgerd and his brother Johannes are recorded on the 1798 census of Göbel in Household No. Gb69.

Their descendants are recorded on the 1834 census of Göbel in Households No. 48 & 104.

Durand*

Peter Durand and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Göbel in Household No. Gb22.

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

Heg (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 Johann Heinrich Heg family was from the German village of Hailer.

Jäkel (Galka)*

Widow Katharina Barbara Jäkel is recorded on the 1798 census of Galka in Household No. Gk49.

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

Gemsemer*

Johann Philipp Gemsemer and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Galka in Household No. Gk44.

The death of Philipp Gemsemer in 1838 is recorded on the 1850 census of Galka in Household No. 199.

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

Engel (Galka)

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 Georg Engel was from the German village of Hailer.

Ebel (Galka)*

Konrad Ebel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Galka in Household No. Gk61.

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