VGI Updates

Wilhelm Siefert and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kaneau in Household No. Kn07.

Orphan Johann Gottlieb Wolfart (age 15) is recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 25 along with the Christoph Wagner family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Wolfart and Wagner families.

The presumed children of Johann Gottlieb Wolfart are recorded on the 1798 census of Kaneau in Household No. Kn35.

The 1767 census does not record from where Johann Gottlieb Wolfart came.

Heinrich Zimmermann (age 13) is recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 85 along with his stepfather Wilhelm Pflug. They had settled in Kaneau on 3 August 1767.

The 1767 census does not record from where Heinrich Zimmerman came.

Heinrich Zimmermann, a farmer, his wife Eva, and daughters (Anna Margaretha, age 14; Anna Maria, age 10; Julianna, age 8; Katharina, age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 72. They had settled there on 10 May 1767.

In 1789, Heinrich Zimmermann and his family moved from Kaneau to Schaffhausen.

The 1767 census records that Heinrich Zimmermann came from the German region of Güttin [?].

Johann Adam Windemuth, a farmer, his wife Anna, daughters [by a previous marriage] (Katharina, age 14; Elisabeth, age 10), and stepchildren [surname Schäfer] (Johann Valentin, age 12; Anna, age 10; Otto Heinrich, age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 68. They had settled there on 23 July 1767.

In 1786, Adam Windemuth and his family moved from Kaneau to Schaffhausen.

The 1767 census records that Johann Adam Windemuth came from the German village of Weiden in the Hessen region.

Christoph Wagner, his wife Anna, and daughter Friederika (age 9-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 25 along with an orphan Johann Gottlieb Wolfart (age 15). The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Wagner and Wolfart families. They had settled in Kaneau on 7 June 1767.

In 1789, widow Johanna Sophia Wagner and her daughters moved from Kaneau to Bettinger.

The 1767 census records that Christoph Wagner came from the German region of Zerbst.

Widower Adam Wagner, a farmer, and his daughter Katharina Elisabeth (age 18) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 67. They had settled there on 23 July 1767.

The 1798 census of Beauregard records Adam Wagner from Kaneau in Household No. Bo06.

The 1767 census records that Adam Wagner came from the German village of Werkel in the Hessen region.

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

Heinrich Specht, a canvas weaver (Leinwandweber), and his wife Dorothea settled in the Volga German colony of Kaneau on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 45.

The 1767 census records that Heinrich Specht came from the German region of Zerbst.

Michael [Specht] (age 17½) and his siblings (Maria, age 15; Christian, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax - along with their stepfather Christian [sic] Scheffler.

Joh. Michael [Specht] (age 17½) and his siblings (Maria Elisabet, age 15½; Christian, age 7) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with their stepfather Christian Scheffler.