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Christian Sorgentreÿ & Sabina Berg were married on 26 August 1766 in Mr. Suhl's house in Lübeck.

Christian Sorgenfrey, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.

Christian Sorgenfrey, a farmer, and his wife Sabina [widow of an unnamed Siebert] are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 34 along with stepson Adam Siebert (age 9) and a note that they settled in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou in 1768.

Adam Siebert (age 9) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 34 along with the Christian Sorgenfrey family and a note that they settled in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou in 1768.

Adam Siebert and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Zürich in Household No. Zr01.

The 1767 census does not record from where Adam Siebert came.

Johannes Schneider, a single farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 106 along with a note that he settled in the colony of Ober-Monjou in 1768.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Schneider came from the German village of Wernitz.

Georg Schneider, his wife Dorothea, and children (Joseph, age 17¼; Sebastian, age 7; Georg, age 4; Eva, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.

Georg Schneider, his wife Dorothea, and children (Joseph, age 17¼; Georg, age 5; Sebastian, age 4; Eva Maria, age 1½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. They are traveling with Anna Maria Schneider (age 19) who is probably a sister of Georg Schneider.

Georg Heinrich Schneider, a hunter (Jäger), his wife Katharina, and children (Anna Eva, age 20; Peter, age 15; Maria, age 13; Elisabeth, age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schönchen in Household No. 9 along with orphan Joseph Ebel (age 15) and a note that they relocated to the colony of Ober-Monjou in 1768. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Schneider and Ebel families.

The 1767 census records that Georg Heinrich Schneider came from the German village of Niederbrechen.

Widower Johannes Schmidt and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schönchen in Household No. Sn02. Recorded there also is the family of his son Johannes (age 25).

The death of Johannes Schmidt, son of Johannes Schmidt, is recorded in 1828 on the 1834 census of Schönchen in Household No. 63.