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Widow Sibilla Katharina Letran is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 51 along with a note that she relocated to the colony of Bettinger in 1768.

The 1767 census records that Sibilla Katharina Letran came from the French village of Larressingle.

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

Andreas Kenner, a merchant (Kaufmann), and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Bettinger on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 9.

The 1767 census records that Andreas Kenner came from the German village of Nussdorf.

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

Johann Hoffmann and his wife Anna 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.

Joh. Hoffmann and his wife Anna Maria are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johannes Hoffmann, a farmer, and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Bettinger on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 15.

Johann Konrad Henlein, a miller (Müller), and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Bettinger on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 29.

The 1767 census records that Johann Konrad Henlein came from the German village of Hilpoltstein.

Johann Gottfried Grummet & Catharina Margaretha Maintsch were married on 17 July 1766 in the Lutheran Cathedral (Evangelische Kirche Dom) in Lübeck.

Gottfried Grummeld [sic], a farmer, and his wife Katharina 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.

Gottfried Grummeld [sic] and his wife Margaretha are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Widow Margaretha Gänzemüller settled in the Volga German colony of Bettinger on 3 August 1767. She is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 35.

The 1767 census records that Margaretha Gänzemüller came from the German village of Bernitz.

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

Johann Georg Feiling, a farmer, and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Bettinger on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 6.

The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Feiling came from the German village of Waldgirmes in the Darmstadt region.

Heinrich Busch arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hans Karholm.

Heinrich Busch is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Heinrich Busch, a farmer, his wife Anna, and her siblings (Johann Heinrich Wilke, age 20; Johannes, age 17) are recorded on the 1767 census of Bettinger in Household No. 20. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Busch came from the German region of Kiel.