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Johannes Scheiring (age 48), a miller (Müller), and his wife Eva Weingarten (age 30) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 21 September 1765.

Johannes Scheuring, a miller (Müller), and his wife Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Volmer on 18 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 35.

Corneius Sauer (age 36), a farmer, his wife Elisabeth Brand (age 36), and children (Johannes, age 6; Phiipp, age 3; Anton, age 1) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms.

Kornelius Sauer, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and son Johannes (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 40. They had settled there on 18 July 1767.

Johannes Sauer [erroneously translated as Hauer in some sources] and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm34.

Michael Dornes, a farmer, wife Rosina, son Franz (age 3), and stepson Eva Margaretha [surname not recorded] (age 5) are recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 29. They had settled there on 18 July 1767.

Franz Dornes and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm30.

Peter Dornes from Volmer and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Marienfeld.

The 1767 census records that Michael Dornus came from the German village of Alzey in the Kurpfalz region.

Johann Jakob Haag, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and son Johannes (age ¼) are recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 47. They had settled there on 18 July 1766.

The 1767 census records that Jakob Haag came from the German village of Alzey in the Kurpfalz region.

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

Michael Foos, a farmer, his wife Gertrude, and daughter Maria (age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 30. They had settled there on 18 July 1767.

The 1767 census records that Michael Foos came from the German village of Alzey in the Kurpfalz region.

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

Michael Brost, a miller (Müller), his wife Maria Magdalena, and son Jakob (age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 31 along with orphan Peter Sieben (age 17). The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Brost and Sieben families. They had settled in Volmer on 18 July 1767.

The 1767 census records that Michael Brost came from the German village of Burg in the Kurmainz region.

Balthasar Boos, a farmer, his wife Eva, and sons (Johann Georg, age 19; Adam, age 17; Kilian, age 12; Tobias, age 6; Heinrich, age 2) 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.

Georg Bernhardt (age 18) and his brothers (August Martin, age 16; Johann Michael, age 13) are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 67 along with their stepfather Johann Samuel Ismann.

The 1767 census does not record from where the Bernhardt brothers came.