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Georg Bernhard from Ober-Monjou and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. Sh14.

Nobertus Arzt (age 19) and his sister Maria Elisabeth (age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 85. They had settled there on 5 March 1767.

The widow and children of Norbertus Arzt are recorded on the 1798 census of Ober-Monjou in Households No. Om45 & Om51.

The 1767 census records that Norbertus Arzt came from the German village of Ronneburg. [Since the Arzt family was Catholic, it is unlikely that this is the Calvinist village of Ronneburg in Hessen - but rather, the Ronneburg in Saxony.]

Christophor Öchsner, son of Kilian & Kunigunde from Greußenheim, was born 6 March 1705 and died 20 April 1747. He married on 17 January 1729 to Anna Maria Nier, daughter of Georg Nier from Homburg am Main.

The birth of a son born to Christophor Öcksner & Anna Maria Nier is recorded in the village of Greußenheim (bei Würzburg): Johannes, born 7 October 1731.

There are two Graf families in Ober-Monjou. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

(1) The widow and son of Johannes Graf are recorded on the 1798 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. Om06.

(2) Christoph Graf, son of the deceased Johann Graf, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. Om27.

Michael Kunkel and his daughter are recorded on the 1798 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. Om46.

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

Christian Marquardt, a single gardner (Gärtner), settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou on 3 August 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 90.

The 1767 census records that Christian Marquardt came from the German village of Schöneberg.

There are two Mink families recorded in Ober-Monjou. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

(1) Johannes Mink and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. Om33.

(2) In 1778, widow Anna Maria Mink and her son Martin moved from Ober-Monjou to Wittmann. Martin Mink, son of the deceased Johannes Mink from Ober-Monjou, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm28.

Just [sic] Altenhoff, a blacksmith, his wife Katharina, and children (Johann, age 13; Philipp, age 11; Maria, age 10; Katharina, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Justus Altenhoff, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Christoph Adam, age 14; Phillip Jacob, age 13; Maria Marg., age 12; Cath. Magdalena, age 9) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Dorothy Balzer (age 22) and her siblings (Johann Christoph, age 14; Magdalena, age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. 16 along with their stepfather Johann Christoph Hemrisch.

In 1793, Christian Balzer moved from Paulskaya to Näb. Christian Balzer from Paulskaya is recorded on the 1798 census of Näb in Household No. Nb32.

The 1767 census does not record from where the Balzer children came.