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Johann Thaumann, a porceline maker (Meister für Porzellanherstellung), and his wife Louisa 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.

Joh. Dammann [sic] and his wife Lowisa are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Thaumann and his wife Julianna are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 32. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.

Orphan Anna Louisa Schapp (age 13) is recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 6 along with her sister and brother-in-law Johann Gottlieb Leopold Martinus.

The 1767 census does not record from where Anna Louisa Schapp came.

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

Heinrich Sauer, a cabinet maker (Tischler), and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Kaneau on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 9.

The 1767 census records that Heinrich Sauer came from the German region of Nassau-Usingen.

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

Georg [Wilhelm] Pflug a tailor, his wife Katharina, children (Henrietta, age 13; Karl, age 3), and father Peter 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.

Philipp Paul, a blacksmith, his wife Maria, and daughters (Maria, age 14; Katharina, age 10; Elisabeth, age 2) 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.

Joh. Philipp Pauly, his wife Anna Margaretha, and daughters (Maria Margaretha, age 14; Maria Catharina, age 10¼; Elisabetha, age 2¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Elisabetha died en route.

Johann Friedrich Kraus, a farmer, and his wife Anna Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Kaneau on 7 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 83 along with stepchildren [surname Hauptrock] (Johann Wilhelm, age 7; Anna, age 2-weeks).

The 1767 census records that Johann Friedrich Kraus came from the German village of Gutenfürst [?].

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

Johann Hinrich [sic] Klein & Agnes Loth were married on 1 July 1766 in the Lutheran Cathedral (Evangelische Kirche Dom) in Lübeck.

Johann Klein, a farmer, his wife Agness, children (Anna, age 12; Kathairna, age 9; Johann, age 8), and sister Elisabeth (age 36) 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.

Michael [sic] Golko, a single farmer, arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 May 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Jacob Janson.

Friedrich [sic] Golko, a single farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Kaneau on 7 June 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 89.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael [sic] Golko came from the German region of Neumark. The 1767 census records that Friedrich [sic] Golko came from the German region of Dessau.