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Adam Seil, a single farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou on 7 June 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 87.

The 1767 census records that Adam Seil came from the German village of Elfershausen.

Christian Sulzbach, son of the deceased Christian Sulzbach, and his sister Maria Elisabeth are recorded on the 1798 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. Om42 along with a note that Christian is working in Mariental.

Christian Sulzbach and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Mariental in Household No. 63.

Ferdinand Stuppert, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Gertrude, age 15; Ferdinand, age 13; Margaretha, age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Ferdinand Stupart [sic], his wife Elisabeth, and children (Katharina Maria, age 18; Ferdinand, age 13; Margaretha, age 11) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Elisabeth died en route.

Johann Hemann, a farmer, and his wife Dorothea settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou on 23 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 82.

The 1767 census records that Johann Hemann came from the German village of Denklingen.

Orphan Margaretha Hesslich (age 19) is recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 16 along with the Johann Ernst Gründler family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Hesslich and Gründler families.

The 1767 census does not record from where Margaretha Hesslich came.

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

Gertrude Krück (age 12) is recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 48 along with her stepfather Christian Weber. They had settled there on 23 July 1767.

The 1767 census does not record from where Gertrude Krück came.

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

Georg Krapp, a gardner (Gärtner), his wife Katharina, and son Adam (age 3-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 34. They had settled there on 17 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Georg Krapp came from the German village of Geiselbach.