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Herrlein (Brabander)*

Johann Jakob Herrlein, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and daughters (Maria Elisabeth, age 17; Katharina, age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 33. They had settled there on 11 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Johann Jakob Herrlein came from the German village of Genkingen in the Siekingen region.

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

Götz (Brabander)

Joseph Götz, a hunter (Jäger), and his unnamed wife settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 19 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 108 along with a note that she died 30 September 1767.

In 1780, widow Joseph Götz left Brabander.

The 1767 census records that Joseph Götz came from the German village of Vilseck in the Bamberg region.

Klitsch*

Anna Maria Klitsch and her unnamed husband, a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 7 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 118 along with two daughters (Margaretha, age 18; Magdalena, age 12) and a note recording that their unnamed father had died on 7 September 1767.

The 1767 census records that Anna Maria Klitsch came from the German village of Langendorf in the Würzburg region.

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

Gimbald*

Andreas Kimbal [sic], a weaver, his Margaretha, and children (Elisabeth, age 16; Johann David, age 15; Lanetta, age 3; Louisa, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.

Andreas Guimbald, his wife Margretha, and children (Maria Elisabeth, age 14; David, age 12) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Ganzwich*

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

Johannes Ganzwich, a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 28 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 30.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Ganzwich came from the German village of Münster in the Kurmainz region.

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

Fuchs (Brabander)

Andreas Kimbal [sic], a weaver, his wife Margaretha, children (Lanetta, age 3; Louisa, age 2), and [step-]children (Elisabeth [Fuchs], age 16; Johann David [Fuchs], age 15) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.

Andreas Guimbald, his wife Margretha, and [step-]children (Maria Elisabeth [Fuchs], age 14; David [Fuchs], age 12) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.