Johann Schröder, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 48.
In 1797, Heinrich Martin Schröder moved from Warenburg to Straub.
From the 13th Century until the invasion of Napoleon, Siegen was located in territory controlled by the various rulers of the Nassau family. Today, it is located in the southwest corner of Nordrhein-Westfalen, near the borders of Hessen and Rheinland-Pfalz.
Johannes Michael Hein, a locksmith (Schlosser), and his wife Anna Rebekka settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 128 along with stepdaughter Katharina [surname not recorded] (age 15).
The 1767 census records that Johannes Michael Hein came from the German village of Siegen in the Nassau region.
Johann[es] Hoffert [sic], a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Christian, age 20; Henrietta, age 17½; Wilhelm, age 17; Sophia, age 14; Joseph, age 9½; Charlotta, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.
Johann[es] Keil, a single cobbler, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767 and is recorded there as a farmer on the 1767 census in Household No. 114.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann[es] Keil came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Anterlot [?] in the Darmstadt region.
An article by Wilhelm Funk records the following going to Russia:
Samuel Isman, a shoelace maker (Nestler), son of Gottfried Ismann, a shoelace maker (Nestler) in Breslau, & Marg. Magd. Bernhard, widow of Joh. Samuel Bernhard, formerly specialty dealer (Spezereihändler) in Nürnberg, both Lutheran, were married on 10 April 1766 in the sacristy of the Lutheran Church in Wöhrd.
Johannes Berger [sic], a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 124 along with his wife Anna Elisabeth, son by his first wife (Johannes, age 4), and stepson Johann Ludwig Konrad (age 3).
This family is believed to be the Ehlenberger family from Warenburg that relocated to the colony of Frank, and are found there on the 1798 census in Households No. Fk005, Fk028, Fk052, Fk128, Fk136.
Brothers Alexander "Sander" & Henry J. Debus founded Debus Bakery in Exeter, Nebraska, in 1923. Sons of Gottfried "Godfred" Debus & Elisabeth Kuxhausen, Sander had been born in the Volga German colony of Kukkus on 14 May 1889; Henry born there on 6 July 1891.
Founded in 1923 in Exeter, Nebraska, the Debus Bakery operation's first location in Hastings was in the Thomas Bakery at 219 N. Lincoln Ave., which Debus had purchased in 1924. A $50,000 baking factory at First Street and Colorado Avenue was built in 1926.
Volga German families settled in and around Exeter, Nebraska.