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Schul(t)z (Wittmann)*

Christoph Schul(t)z and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm42 along with the family of Ferdinand Müller.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Schul(t)z family among the Volga German colonies.

Will (Wittmann)

Johann Wiel and his wife Gertrude arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.

Johann Wiel [sic], his wife Gertrude, and daughter Anna Maria (age ¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Will and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm12.

On the 1834 census of Wittmann, descendants of this family are recorded with the surname of Wild in Household No. 83.

Albert (Zug)

Peter Albert, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

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

Peter Albrecht [sic] and his [new] wife Arnolda [Deisling] are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 30.

Peter Albert and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Zug in Household No. Zg09.

Blessing

The widow and children of Sebastian Blessing from Mariental are recorded on the 1798 census of Zug in Household No. Zg01.

Peter Blessing and his siblings are recorded on the 1834 census of Zug in Household No. 101.

Dieter (Beauregard)

Friedrich Dieter (age 52), his unnamed wife, and three unnamed children immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Fridericia on 1 May 1760. They settled in the Danish colony of Friderichsnaade. They are last recorded in the Danish colonies on 26 April 1763.

Friedrich Diether [sic] (age 55), a farmer, his wife Christina Marckelbach, and children (Maria Anna, age 18; Johann Michael, age 13; Johann Balthasar, age 9) 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 2 September 1765.

Engel (Zug)

The baptism of Johannes Adam Engel, son of Philipp Engel & Barbara Pfeifer, is recorded in the parish register of St. Martin's Catholic Church in Orb on 16 June 1739.

Adam Engel, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax along with several other families from Orb.

Joh. Adam Engett [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.