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Burgardt (Kaneau)

Jakob Burgardt, a single turner, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

It is possible that this is the same Burgardt who settled in Kaneau.

Jacob Burchhardt (age 18) is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Jakob Burgardt, a single farmer (age 18), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 70.

In 1785, Jakob Burgardt and his family moved from Kaneau to Schwed.

Böhm (Kaneau)

Jakob Böhmer [sic], a single cobbler, 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.

Jacob Böhmer [sic] is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Jakob Böhm [sic], a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 11. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.

Bloss (Kaneau)

Gottlieb Bloss, a miller (Müller), and his wife Johanna settled in the Volga German colony of Kaneau on 7 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 42.

The 1767 census records that Gottlieb Bloss came from the German region of Dessau.

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

Bittner (Kaneau)*

Katharina Margaretha Bittner (age 15) is recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 73 along with her stepfather Georg Fried.

The 1767 census does not record from where Katharina Margaretha Bittner came.

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

Baschka / Paske*

Georg Friedrich Paske [sic], a farmer, his wife Christina, and children (Johann Georg, age 7; Elisabeth, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum aboard the galliot Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Geier.

It is believed that Christina and the children died after arrival in Russia, and that Georg Friedrich Baschke remarried to Anna, widow of an unnamed Mattis and former wife of Leonhard Menges [see entries for Mattis & Menges].

Bäcker (Kaneau)

Johann Georg Bäcker, a tailor (Schneider), is recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 53 along with his wife Elisabeth, widow of Christian Leschhorn, and her daughter Ursula Leschhorn (age 12). They had settled there on 10 May 1767.

The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Bäcker came from the German village of Nieder-Modau.

Paul (Jost)*

Orphans Maria Elisabeth Paul (age 20) and her sister Anna Maria (age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Jost in Household No. 87 along with a note that they are living in the household of Karl Meisner. They had settled in Jost on 5 September 1767.

The 1767 census records that Maria Elisabeth Paul came from the German village of Freital in the Brandenburg region.

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