Johann Bernhard Litke, a corporal (Korporal), 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. 20.
The 1767 census records that Johann Bernhard Littke came from the German region of Fenay [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Litke family among the Volga German colonies.
Leonhard Menges from Senck & Anna Regina Mathes, a widow, were married 28 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Leonhard Menges (age 26), a farmer, his wife Anna, and [step-]son Georg [Mattias] (age 10¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronstadt under the command of Lieutenant Samuel Gibbs.
Leonhard Menges evidently died after arrival in Russia. His widow Anna remarried to Georg Friedrich Baschka.
Orphan Konrad von Rau (age 14) is recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 43 along with the single Johann Christian Müller (age 28). The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the von Rau and Müller families.
The 1767 census does not record from where Konrad von Rau came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this von Rau family among the Volga German colonies.
Andreas Müller, a merchant, his wife Maria, and children (Maria, age 12; Reinhardt, age 8; Philipp, age 4; Christian, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson.
Andres [sic] Müller, his wife Maria Petronella, and children (Regina, age 12½; Johann Reinhard, age 10¼; Philip Werner, age 5½; Christian, age 2¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Leonhardt Schumm, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Georg, age 6; Katharina, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Leonhard Schum [sic], his wife Anna Margreth., and children (Georg, age 5; Catrina [born en route]) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that son Georg died en route.
Orphan Johann Heinrich Wurseck (age 11) is recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 224. He had settled there on 27 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Wurseck came from Denmark.
Philipp Schnell, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Jakob, age 17; Ursula, age 16) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hans Karholm.
Philipp Schnell, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Jacob, age 17¼; Ursula, age 16) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father Philipp died en route.
Peter Schaper, a single mason (Maurer), settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 5 March 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 218 along with a note that he was working as a day-laborer (Lohnarbeiter).
The 1767 census records that Peter Schaper came from the town of Amsterdam in Holland.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Johannes Sahlmann (age 16) and his siblings (Michael, age 14; Dorothea, age 11; Anna, age 8; Eva Elisabeth, age 3) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 100 along with their stepfather Johann Friedrich Potthof. The Johann Friedrich Potthof family relocated to the colony of Katharinenstadt in 1768 and it is assumed that the Sahlmann children accompanied them.
The 1767 census does not record from where the Sahlmann children came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Since 1 January 2009, Beuna has been administratively part of the municipality of Merseburg.