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Anna Maria Neuberger, a single lay laborer (Lahnarbeiterin), is recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 93 along with the Johann Georg Eltz family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Neuberger and Eltz families.

The 1767 census does not record from where Anna Maria Neuberger came.

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

Johann Georg Müller, a tailor (Schneider), settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 13 August 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 107 along with a note that his unnamed wife had died 23 October 1767.

The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Müller came from the German village of Bassenheim.

Anna Maria Meiser, widow of an unnamed farmer, and her children (Elisabeth, age 17; Johann [Jakob?], age 13) are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 117. They had settled there on 11 August 1767. There is a note on the 1767 census recording that her unnamed husband died on 19 October 1767.

In 1790, widower Jakob Meiser and his family moved to Astrakhan.

The 1767 census records that Anna Maria Meiser came from the German village of Wintelz in the Nassau region.

Michael Marx from Brabander is recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br63.

The widow of Christoph Kaufmann and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Brabander in Household No. Bn54.

Michael Heckel [sic], a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and daughter Maria (age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.

Michel Hesse, his wife Margaretha, and newborn daughter Ursula are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

In 1788, Johannes Beck moved from Brabander to Dehler.

Johannes Beck from Brabander and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dehler in Household No. Dl13.

Adam Gaff from Brabander and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dehler in Household No. Dl13 along with a note that Adam Gaff is working in Herzog.

Adam Gaff is recorded on the 1811 census of Dehler in Household No. 13 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Graf.