Johann Döring & Maria Catharina Müller were married on 23 June 1766 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck. This is believed to be the same Johann Döring who settled in the colony of Köhler.
Johann Döring, a farmer, his wife Margaretha Heil, and daughter Katharina (age 1½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 19. They had settled there on 10 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Johann Döring came from the German region of Fulda.
Christian Farher, a farmer, his wife Katharina Margaretha Eckstein, and sons (Ulrich, age 16; Johann Peter, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 63. They had settled there on 21 August 1767.
Ulrich Pfarher and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Köhler in Household No. Kl01.
The death of Ulrich Pfarher in 1826 on the 1834 census of Semenovka in Household No. 15.
Johannes Pfarher, grandson of Ulrich Pfarher, from Semenovka and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Marienberg.
Johann Tisentauer [sic], a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Nikolaus, age 21; Franziscus, age 19; Johann Georg, age 17; Maria Katharina, age 15) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the hooker Die Jungfer Dietrika under the command of Skipper Christian Korsholm.
Johann Hassenhauer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Nicolaus, age 21; Franciscus, age 17; Johann Georg, age 16; Maria Catrina, age 9) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Joseph Thomä, a farmer, and his wife Maria Klara arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the pink Cargo under the command of Lieutenant Moses Davydov.
Maria Klara died and Joseph remarried to widow Eva Elisabeth. They settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 21 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 84 along with Eva Elisabeth's son, Johannes (age 17) [surname believed to be Helmer].
Johannes Helmer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Köhler in Household No. Kl55.
Johann Haag, a farmer, his wife Katharina Herod, and son Johannes (age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 20. They had settled there on 10 August 1767.
Johannes Haag and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Köhler in Household No. Kl06.
Jakob Hack and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Köhler in Household No. 133 along with a note that they relocated to the daughter colony of Josefstal in 1852.
Jakob Hack [sic] from Köhler and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Josefstal in Household No. 6.
In 1787, widower Melchior Köhlberger moved from Neu-Kolonie to Mariental.
Melchior Köhlberger from Köhler is recorded on the 1798 of Mariental in Household No. Mt20.
Johann Lossel, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his wife Wilhelmina Dorothea settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 21 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 87.
The 1767 census records that Johann Lossel came from the French region of Picardie.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Johann Preuss, a single tailor (Schneider), settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 10 August 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household no. 25 along with a note that he is working as a day laborer (Lohnarbeiter).
The 1767 census records that Johann Preuss came from the German region of Worms.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Preuss family among the Volga German colonies.
Georg Anton Schäfer, son of the deceased Konrad Schäfer, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Köhler in Household No. Kl25.
Orphan Simon Siebert (age 12), son of the deceased Jakob Siebert, is recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 18 along with the Bartolomeus Manz family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Siebert and Manz families.
In 1798, Johann Adam Siebert moved from Köhler to Semenovka.
Johann Adam Siebert and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Semenovka in Household No. Se37.
The death of Adam Siebert in 1833 is recorded on the 1834 census of Semenovka in Household No. 73.