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Katharina Lusmar, stepdaughter of Balthasar Rudolf, is recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 74.

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

Andreas Puhl, his wife Apollonia, and children (Johann Jakob, age 7½; Katharina, age 3½) are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 79.

Widow Margaretha Rahn and her daughters (Katharina Elisabeth, age 10½; Dorothea, age 8¼; Katharina Barbara, age 3½; Elisabeth Margaretha, age 1) are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 21.

Three of the daughters are recorded on the 1798 census of Grimm in Households No. Gm026, Gm058, and Gm083.

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

Karl Ruppel (age 19) is recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Supplement #1. He is recorded there as the stepson of Abraham Freund.

Orphan Heinrich [sic] Weiss (age 18), son of the deceased Johann Weiz, is recorded on the 1767 census of Göbel in Household No. 53 along with the Philipp Reiss family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Weiss and Reiss families.

A note on the 1767 census records that Heinrich Weiss relocated to the colony of Semenovka in 1768. Georg [sic] Weiss is recorded on the 1798 census of Semenovka in Household No. Se27.

The 1767 census does not record from where Heinrich / Georg Weiss came.

Peter Tirant, a farmer, his wife Christina, and daughters (Maria, age 15; Maria [again], age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Göbel in Household No. 45. They had settled there on 25 May 1767.

The 1767 census records that Peter Tirant came from the French village of Erschail [?] in the Derick region [?].

Johannes Speller, a farmer, his wife Christina, and son Franziskus (age 14½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Göbel in Household No. 39. They had settled there on  25 May 1767.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Speller came from the German village of Tating in the Kurmainz.

Michael Kossmann, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth Wud settled in the Volga German colony of Göbel on 20 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 11.

The 1767 census records that Michael Kossmann came from the German village of Fell.

Jakob Klein, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Göbel on 25 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 76.

The 1767 census records that Jakob Klein came from the German region of Hanau.

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

There are 3 Bauer families from the German village of Orb that arrived together from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink. They all settled in the Volga German colony of Luzern. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

(1) Johannes Bauer, son of Philipp & Anna Maria Bauer, married 18 January 1740 in St. Martin's Church in Orb to Anna Maria Auerbach, daughter of Johannes Heinrich Auerbach & Eva Bauer.