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Elisabeth Rath (age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen along with her brother-in-law Johann Kaspar Geist, his wife Anna Margaretha [Rath], and daughter Anna Katharina (age 1).

Widow Elisabeth Schumacher née Rath (age 48) from Walter and her deceased son's family are recorded on the 1798 census of Frank in Fk113.

Widower Kaspar Geist and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt033.

Margaretha [Ohlmeyer] (age 38) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named St. Johannes (Saint John) under the command of Skipper Carstens Stahl as a servant in the Samuel Becker household. [See Becker Family.]

Margretha Ohlmeyer is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony she settled.

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

Samuel Beier [sic], a physician (Arzt), his wife Albertina Friederika, children (Friederika Judith, age 14; Samuel Peter, age 11; Henrietta, age 8; Margaretha, age 7; Margaretha [again], age 6), and servant Margaretha [Ohlmeyer] (age 38) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named St. Johannes (Saint John) under the command of Skipper Carstens Stahl.

Two single Günther women (Elisabeth Kinder [sic] & Katharina Kinder [sic]) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named St. Johannes (Saint John) under the command of Skipper Carstens Stahl. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

Elisab. Günther is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony she settled.

Widow Maria Rutrof and her daughter Anna Margaretha (age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named St. Johannes (Saint John) under the command of Skipper Carstens Stahl.

Widow Maria Rutrof is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony she settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Maria Rutrof came from the German region of Darmstadt.

Andreas Wink, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named St. Johannes (Saint John) under the command of Skipper Carstens Stahl.

Andreas Winck is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony he settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Wink came from the German region of Fulda.

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

Widow Margaretha Schulz and her children (Maria, age 7; Mattias, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named St. Johannes (Saint John) under the command of Skipper Carstens Stahl.

Widow Elisabeth Schultze [sic] and her son Mattheas (age 5) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Margaretha Schulz came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony).

Johann Kaspar Müller, his wife Eva Louisa, and children (Anna Eva, age 26; Kaspar, age 18; Regina, age 15; Margaretha, age 10; Johann Georg, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named St. Johannes (Saint John) under the command of Skipper Carstens Stahl.

Their children (Anna Eva, age 20; Anna Regina, age 16; Kaspar, age 18) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

Two Ruppel families are recorded together on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. Their relationship to each other, if any, requires additional research.

(1) Johann Caspar Rüppel [sic] from Wallernhausen married on 26 June 1766 in St. Mary's Lutheran Church in Büdingen to Anna Elisabeth Appel, daughter of the deceased Heinrich Appel from Unter-Lais [see Appel Family in Yagodnaya Polyana]. Anna Elisabeth had been baptized in August 1730 in Unter-Lais.

Widow Julianna Dommer and her daughter Gertrude (age 16) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named St. Johannes (Saint John) under the command of Skipper Carstens Stahl.

Widow Anna Juliana Dommer and her daugher Gertruth (age 16) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Julianna Dommer came from the German region of Riedesel.