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Ehrler*

Balthasar Ellang [sic], a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Kunigunda (age ½) 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.

Balthasar Ehrler and his wife Cathrina are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Krämer (Schaffhausen)*

Georg Krämer, his wife Susanna, and children (Maria, age 5½; Johann, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.

Georg Krämer, his wife Elisabeth, and son Johann (age 2½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that son Johann died en route.

Johann Georg Krämer, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 106 along with a note that they settled in the Volga German colony of Schaffhausen in  1768.

Kinkler / Kindrer*

Just Ludwig Kinkler, a farmer, and his wife Eleonora are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census in Household No. 88 along with a note that they settled in the colony of Schaffhausen in 1768.

This is believed to be the same Jost Kindrer from Schaffhausen whose widow and daughter are recorded on the 1798 census of Urbach in Household No. Ur10.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Kinkler/Kindrer line among the Volga German colonies.

Held(t) (Schaffhausen-1)*

An article by Wilhelm Funk records the following going to Russia:

Georg Heinrich Held, a stocking maker (Strumpfwirker) from Schwabach, son of (unnamed) Held, a merchant (Kaufmann) in Nürnberg, and Magd. Kohlmann, widow of Anton Kohlmann, a baking assistant (Beckenknecht) in Royal Prussian field service, both Lutheran, were married on 7 May 1766 in the Lutheran Church in Wörhd.

Pfeifer (Schaffhausen)

Johann Georg Pfeifer (age 17) and his sisters (Elisabeth, age 16; Philippina, age 8) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 133 along with a note that they settled in the colony of Schaffhausen in 1768.

Georg Pfeifer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. Sh22.

The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Pfeifer came from the German village of Sankt Goar.

Träger (Schaffhausen)*

Jakob Träger, a farmer, and his wife Maria are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 21.

Widower Jakob Träger his daughter and son-in-law Karl Niederheim are recorded on the 1798 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. Sh16.

The 1767 census records that Jakob Träger came from the German village of Kronshausen [?] in the Darmstadt region.

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

Pulter*

In 1786, Friedrich Pulter and his wife moved from Schaffhausen to Katharinenstadt.

Friedrich Pulter and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka137. The Agricultural Census of 1798 records his surname as Tumler.

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