VGI Updates

Johann Heinrich Jungmann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Zürich in Household No. Zr17.

There are 2 Keller families from Zürich. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

(1) Christian Ernst Keller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Zürich in Household No. Zr51.

(2) Jakob Keller from Zürich and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bettinger in Household No. Bt02.

Johann [Daniel] Maurer, a single cobbler (Schuhmacher), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 63.

Daniel Maurer from Zürich and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Näb in Household No. Nb26.

Johann Peter Maurer, son of Daniel Maurer, and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Näb in Household No. 57.

The 1767 census records that Johann [Daniel] Maurer came from the German village of Tübingen.

Christian Reichert from Zürich and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Louis in Household No. Ls08.

In 1769, widow Sophia Heineman from Boisroux married Heinrich Seitz in Zürich.

Karl Gottlieb Sartenbach [sic] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.

Carl Gottlob Wartenbach [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.

Karl Gottlob Sartenbach [sic], a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Magdalena are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 44. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.

Gottlieb Weidenbach [sic] from Zürich and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Kind in Household No. Kd15.

Peter Zieg and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Zürich in Household No. Zr07.

Jakob Leonhard arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder.

Jakob Leonhard, a farmer, and his wife Sophia are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 2.

Widow Sophia Leonhard and her son Johann Martin are recorded on the 1798 census of Zug in Household No. Zr27.

The 1767 census records that Jakob Leonhard came from the German village of Leer.

There are 3 Krümmel families that arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

(1) An article by Hermann Wäschke records the following going to Russia:

(unnamed) widow Krümmel with 2 children, from Kochstedt in the district of Dessau.

Widow Dorothea Louisa Krümmel and her son Johann (age 16) arrived in Oranienbaum.