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Jost (Keller)*

Orphan Elisabeth Jost is recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 11 along with the Ludwig Hesser family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Jost and Hesser families.

The 1767 census does not record from where Elisabeth Jost came.

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

Iserloh*

Orphan Karl Joseph Iserloh (age 9) is recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 9 along with his sister Anna Elisabeth and her husband Hermann Müller.

The 1767 census does not record from where Karl Joseph Iserloh came.

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

Heisser

Johann[es] Heister [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna, daughter Anna (age ½), and mother-in-law Anna [surname not recorded] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the hooker Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Keller on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 14. A note recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 75 seems to indicate that Johannes Heisser's wife's maiden name may be Walter.

Heckmann (Keller)

Johannes Heckmann, a physician (Arzt), and his wife Maria Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Keller on 15 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 55.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Heckmann came from the German village of Schlechtenwald in the region of Böhmen (Bohemia).

Guntherom

Heinrich Guntherom, a farmer, his wife Appolonia, and daughter Maria Sophia (age 5) are recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 48. They had settled there on 12 May 1767.

The 1767 census records that Heinrich Guntherom came from the German village of Allendorf in the Kurmainz region.

Girdwar*

Leon Girdwar, a tobacco worker (Tabakarbeiter), and his wife Barbara settled in the Volga German colony of Keller on 12 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 36 along with Barbara's son David Kloster (age 20).

The 1767 census records that Leon Girdwar came from the German region of Strassburg.

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

Fritz (Keller)*

Widow Katharina Fritz and her children (Georg, age 20; Johann [Philipp], age 18; and Kunigunda, age 13) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard the ship named Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.

Fell

Johann Fell, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Anna, age 20; Agnesia, age 18; Elisabeth, age 12; Johann [Adam], age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the hooker Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.

Brohl (Köhler)

Johann Bruhl, a farmer, his wife Anna Sophia Kujak, and daughters (Anna Christina, age 5; Margaretha, age 3; Magdalena, age ¼) are recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 22. They had settled there on 10 August 1767.

In 1790, Nikolaus Bruhl moved from Semenovka to Husaren.

In 1798, Nikolaus Bruhl moved from Köhler to Husaren.

Nikolaus Brohl and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Husaren in Household No. Hn07.