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Johannes Leyck [sic] (age 42), a farmer, his wife Elisabeth Margaretha Schmid (age 38), and children (Anna Catharina, age 11; Anna Maria, age 11; Anna Maria, age 9; Johann Martin, age 6; Bartholomeus, age 2) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms.

Johannes Leick, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and daughters (Anna Maria, age 13; Anna Margaretha, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schuck in Household No. 35. They had settled there on 1 May 1767.

Georg Schmidt, a farmer, and his wife Johanna settled in the Volga German colony of Urbach on 3 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 37.

The 1767 census records that Georg Schmidt came from the German region of Ansbach.

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

Karl Röder, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Elisabeth, widow of Friedrich Ost, settled in the Volga German colony of Urbach on 13 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 6.

The 1767 census records that Karl Röder came from the German village of Wittenberg in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).

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

Friedrich Ost died before reaching the Volga German colonies. His widow, Elisabeth, remarried to Karl Röder.

They settled in the colony of Urbach on 13 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 6.

The 1767 census records that Elisabeth came from the German village of Frankenberg in the Hessen region.

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

Orphan Sophia Markert (age 19) is recorded on the 1767 census of Urbach in Household No. 14 along with the Michael Weinert family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Markert and Weinert families.

The 1767 census does not record from where Sophia Markert came.

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

Heinrich Markroth, a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Urbach in Household No. 39. They had settled there on 3 July 1767.

The 1767 census records that Heinrich Markroth came from the German village of Wegeleben in the Brandenburg region and that his wife Katharina came from the German village of Hochhausen in the Darmstadt region.

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

Heinrich Krause and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Urbach in Household No. Ur18.

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

In 1775, widow Katharina Kister and her children left Urbach.

In 1797, Christian Jost and his family moved from Urbach to Reinhard.

Johann Georg Jost is recorded on the 1798 census of Urbach in Household No. Ur25 along with a note that he is working in Stahl am Karaman.

[Johann] Georg Jost from Urbach and his sons are recorded on the 1811 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 32 along with a note that he had arrived in Stahl am Karaman from Urbach in 1809.

The widow and children of Christian Jost from Urbach are recorded on the 1798 census of Rohleder in Household No. Rh04.