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Pfeif(f)er (Kolb)

Johann Georg Peiper [sic] & Anna Catharina Fries were married 6 May 1751 in Bruchköbel near Hanau. He had been baptized in Bruchköbel on 4 March 1723. She had been born in neighboring Niederrodenbach on 5 December 1719.

They had the following children, each born in Bruchköbel: (1) Anna, born 24 February 1752; (2) Johannes, born 4 October 1755; and (3) Jakob, born 5 April 1758.

Baal / Bahl (Hussenbach)

The 1798 census of Hussenbach records (in Household No. Hs125) that Bernhard Bahl is working in the colony of Beideck.

Heinrich Bahl and his family are recorded on thd 1834 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 96.

Gothardt Bahl and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 105.

[Some sources translate this surname as Paul.]

Ehl (Hussenbach)*

Hermann Ehl and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. Hs010.

Hermann died between 1811 & 1816, and there are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.

Wink (Hussenbach)

Johann Wink, a farmer, his wife Anna Magdalena, and children (Ottilia [sic], age 5; Johann, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the galliot Die Perle under the command of Skipper Thomson.

Johann Peter Winck [sic], his wife Anna Maria, and children (Dorothea [sic], age 6; Johannes, age 3) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that son Johannes died en route.

Mir*

Heinrich Mir, a blacksmith (Schmied), 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. 46.

The 1767 census records that Heinrich Mir came from the German region of Olsted.

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

Lichtner

Christian [sic] Lichtner, his wife Dorothea, and children (Johann, age 17; Margaretha, age 12; Elisabeth, age 7; Christoph, age 2½) 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.

Christian [sic] Lichtner, his wife Dorothea, and children (Joh. Christian, age 17½; Johanna Margareta, age 12; Carl Martin, age ¾) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that wife Dorothea died en route.