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Serast Sereisbar, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and son Serast (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. 4. They had settled there on 13 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Serast Sereisbar came from the village of Weizersen [?] in the Grindlanos [?] region.

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

Johann Steinmann, a farmer, and his wife Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Tarlyk on 5 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 42.

The 1767 census records that Johann Steinmann came from the Finish village of Luoma [?].

Michael Jeserek, a farmer, and his wife Johanna settled in the Volga German colony of Susannental on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 28.

The 1767 census records that Michael Jeserek came from the German village of Holz [?].

Johann Heinrich Engelmann, a farmer, and his wife Dorothea settled in the Volga German colony of Susannental on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 10.

The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Engelmann came from the German village of Eisenhofen [?].

[Johann] Georg Heit, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson.

Joh. Georg Heit is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Georg Heit, a farmer, and his wife Maria are recorded on the 1767 census of Susannental in Household No. 21. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.

Johan Georg Freÿ, assistant craftsman (Handl. Bedienter) from Leipzig, & Anna Elisab. Hoffmann, widow from the area of Hessen, daughter of Christian Gilt, were married on 20 jun e1766 in Rodeman's house in Lübeck. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.

Johann Georg Frei, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Susannental on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 32.