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Combat*

Anton Combat, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and daughter Gertrude (age 16) settled in the Volga German colony of Seelmann on 24 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 43.

The 1767 census records that Anton Combat came from the German village of Büdesheim in the Kurpfalz region.

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

Brehne*

Johann Brehne, a plasterer (Stuckateur), and his wife Ursula settled in the Volga German colony of Seelmann on 5 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 52 along with his stepchildren [surname Strack] (Margaretha, age 15; Simon, age 13; Christoph, age 10).

The 1767 census records that Johann Brehne came from the German village of Neustadt in the Kurpfalz region.

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

Scherr (Seelmann)

Mattias Scherr, a farmer, his unnamed wife, and daughter Barbara (age 6) settled in the Volga German colony of Seelmann on 15 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 86 along with a note that the unnamed wife had died 28 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Mattias Scherr came from the German village of Reuth in the Bamberg region.

Gobert*

Johann Gobert, a farmer, his wife Margaretha Elisabeth, and sons (Mattias, age 6; Balthasar, age ¼) are recorded on the 1767 census of Semenovka in Household No. 21. They had settled there on 24 July 1767.

The 1767 census records that Johann Gobert came from the German village of Langenprozelten in the Kurmainz region.

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

Grein

There are two Grein families that settled in the Volga German colony of Semenovka on 24 July 1767. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

(1) Johann Konrad Grein, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and children (Johann Heinrich, age 19; Katharina, age 17; Margaretha, age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Semenovka in Household No. 43. The 1767 census records that Johann Konrad Grein came from the German village of Langen in the Darmstadt region.

Haspert

Orphan Peter Haspert, son of the deceased Georg Haspert, is recorded on the 1767 census of Semenovka in Household No. 18 along with the Johannes Bensak family. They had settled there on the 24 July 1767. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Haspert and Bensak families.

[Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the list of those being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 record that Johannes Bensack was travelling with a brother named Peter who was the same age as this Peter Haspert, so they could be half-brothers or step-brothers.]

Hein(t)z (Semenovka)

In 1792, Wilhelm Heinz and his family moved from Semenovka to Köhler.

Wilhelm Heinz from Semenovka and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Köhler in Household No. Kl90.

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