VGI Updates

Hartmann Gottmann [sic], a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson.

Hartmann Kauffmann and his wife Anna Maria are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Hartmann Kaufmann, a farmer, and his wife Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Susannental on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 18.

In 1786, Johannes Jost and his family moved from Susannental to the Caucasus.

In 1786, Johann Georg Gerst and his family moved from Susannental to Basel.

Nikolaus Usinger [some translations record Gesinger], a farmer, his wife Martha, and children (Maria, age 22; Andreas, age 20; Johann, age 10) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard the ship named Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.

Hartmann Scherr, a farmer, his wife Anna Klara, and daughter Anna Maria (age 16) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stephan in Household No. 30. They had settled there on  24 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Hartmann Scherr came from the German village of Köthen.

Johann Peter Lochmann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Stephan in Household No. Sp03.

The death of Johann Peter Lochmann in 1827 is recorded on the 1834 census of Stephan in Household No. 13.

Johann Kaspar Hübner, a single barber (Friseur), settled in the Volga German colony of Stephan on 24 August 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 34 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Galka in 1768.

The 1767 census records that Johann Kaspar Hübner came from the German village of Schaffhausen.

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

Bartholomaeus Geibler, a mechanic, his wife Maria Magdalena, and daughter Katharina (age 23) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the hooker Die Jungfer Dietrika under the command of Skipper Christian Korsholm.

Bartholomaeus Heibler [sic], his wife Anna Magdalena, and daughter Catharina (age 23) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.