VGI Updates

Johann Albrecht, a single cobbler (Schuhmacher), settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 7 June 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 92.

The 1767 census records that Johann Albrecht came from the German village of Bretthausen.

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

Johannes Wulf, a farmer, and his wife Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 57.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Wulf came from the German village of Merdershein in the Bayreuth region.

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

Peter Wilhelm and his wife Rosina are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Peter Wilhelm, a farmer, and his wife Rosina settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou on 3 August 1767 along with orphan Anna Esslauer. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Wilhelm and Esslauer families. They had settled in Ober-Monjou on 3 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Peter Wilhelm came from the German region of Nassau.

Johann Georg Wenimherr, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth, and his son Johannes (age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 79. They had settled there on 23 July 1767.

The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Wenimherr came from the German village of Beckum [?].

Philipp Wasen, a farmer, and his wife Appolonia are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits that is appended to the 1767 census in Household No. 86 along with a note that they settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou in 1768.

The 1767 census records that Philipp Wasen came from the German village of Bensheim [?].

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

Johann [Christoph] Vogel, a tailor (Schneider), his wife Klara, and [step-]sons (Sebastian, age 17½; Anton, age 15; Andreas, age 13) 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.

Johann Christp. Vogel, his wife Clara Catharina, and [step-]sons [surname Leikam] (Sebastian, age 17½; Anthon, age 15½; Andreas, age 13) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Orphan Barbara Spindt (age 15) and her brother Johann Georg (age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 2 along with their stepfather Joseph Spister.

The 1767 census does not record from where the Spindt siblings came.

Paul Bährlein, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and son Georg (age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.

Paulus Bährlein, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and son Peter (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 64. They had settled there on 5 September 1767.

Following the destruction of Leitsinger, they resettled in the colony of Neu-Kolonie and are recorded there on the 1798 census in Household No. Nk09.

Mattias Zeisler and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Leichtling in Household No. Lg33.

Johann Peter Zeisler is recorded on the 1834 census of Leichtling in Household No. 48 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Neu-Kolonie in 1820.

Johann Peter Zeisler from Leichtling is recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 71 along with a note that he died there in 1822. His children are believed recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 1.