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Peter Kuntzenbach, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder.

Peter Kuntzenbach is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Peter Kintzenbach [sic], a stocking weaver (Strumpfwirker), and his [new] wife Elisabeth are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 27 along with a note that they settled in the colony of Biberstein in 1768.

In 1786, Gottlieb Lehmann and his family moved from Ernestinendorf to Orlovskaya.

Gottlieb Lehmann from Ernestinendorf is recorded on the 1798 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. Or38.

Before 1798, Heinrich Winterberg moved from Biberstein to Beauregard.

In 1777, Friedrich Wirth and his family left Biberstein.

In 1769, Johann Faubus and his family moved from Ernestinendorf to Basel.

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

Johann Philipp Meckel, his wife Maria, and children (Anna, age 5½; Johannes, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder.

Johann Philip [sic] Merckel [sic] and his wife Maria recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

In 1788, Jakob Lichner and his wife moved from Dönhof to Anton.

In 1783, Johann Paul and his family moved from Boisroux to Hummel.

Rudolph Häller [sic], a farmer, his wife Dorothea, and daughter Christina (age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.

They are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Rudolf Halle, a farmer, his wife Dorothea, and children (Christina, age 6; Christian, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 54. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.

Thomas Bauer, a butcher (Fleischer), and his wife Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya in Household No. 74. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Thomas Bauer came from the German region of Fürth.

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