VGI Updates

The widow and children of Kaspar Pfeifer are recorded on the 1798 census of Schönchen in Household No. Sn08.

Peter Petri, his wife Elisabeth, and son Valentin (age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hans Karholm.

Peter Petri, his wife Elisabeth, and son Valentin (age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Peter Peters [sic], a merchant (Kaufmann), his wife Elisabeth, and son Valentin (age 9) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 10.

Johann Philipp Melnatz and his sisters are recorded on the 1798 census of Schönchen in Household No. Sn44 along with a note that he is working in the colony of Biberstein.

Johann Löp [sic], his wife Margaretha, and children (Georg, age 8; Margaretha, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.

Johann Löwe, his wife Margaretha, and children (Georg, age 9; Margaretha, age 4) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that both Georg & Margaretha died en route.

Johann[es] Konrad, a farmer, his wife Kunigunda, and children (Margaretha, age 5; Johannes, age 4) are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1798 census in Household No. 92. They had settled there on 17 August 1767.

Johannes Konrad and his wife Kunigunda Simon are recorded on the 1798 census of Schönchen in Household No. Sn11.

The 1767 census records that Johann[es] Konrad came from the German village of Bartschütz [Burtschütz?].

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

In 1769, Nikolaus Kewelein [sic] and his family moved from Hummel to Schönchen.

Wilhelm Köberlein from Schönchen and his family is recorded on the 1798 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. Om61.

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

Franz Carl, fabric maker (Zeuchmacher), son of Wencezlaus Carl, a fabric maker (Zeuchmacher) in Teutschbrod [Deutschbrod] in Bohemia, Catholic, & Elis. Magdal. Hörner, daughter of the deceased Joh. Hörner, a master mason (Maurermeister) in Leuterschausen in the area of Ansbach, Lutheran, were married on 17 June 1766 in the Lutheran Church in Wöhrd.

Jakob Göter [sic], his wife Margaretha, and son Johann (age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.

Jacob Götzer [sic], his wife Margaretha, and son Joh. Friedrich (age ½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that his son Joh. Friedrich died en route.

Jakob Götz and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schönchen in Household No. Sn08.

The death of Jakob Götz in 1816 is recorded on the 1834 census of Schönchen in Household No. 92.

In 1774, Ignatzius Goyer and his family moved from Schönchen to Yekaterinburg.