VGI Updates

Johannes Seib is recorded on the 1798 census of Boisroux in Household No. Bx53 along with a note that he is working the colony of Schwed.

Andreas Schröder, a weaver (Weber), and his wife Johanna settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 74.

The 1767 census records that Andreas Schröder came from the German village of Gening [?].

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

Thomas Schöneberg, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and children (Elisabeth, age 3; Johann, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Thomas Johann Scheiteberg [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

An article by Hermann Wäschke records the following going to Russia:

Andreas Rönecke (Reinecke) [sic] (p.90) Rönicke (Reinigke) [sic] (p.91), a linen weaver (Leineweber) from Wörlitz, who had taken over his father's house in Kälberhaynicht while his father was still alive, but he still had not paid anything for it.

A list of Andreas Rönecke's debts recorded in Wörlitz in 1766 indicates that he was born in Wörlitz.

Georg Müller, a baker, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.

Georg Mich. Muller [sic] is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Georg Michael Müller, a carpenter (Zimmermann), and his [new] wife Dorothea are recorded on the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 65. They had settled in Boisroux on 7 June 1767.

Georg Michael Müller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Boisroux in Household No. Bx18.

Christian Müller, a single baker, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Christian Ludewig [sic] Müller is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Christian Ludwig Müller, a single baker (Bäcker), settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 3 August 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 94.

Karl Luder [sic], a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Johann, age 18; Karl, age 16; Sophia, age 11; Christian, age 9; Joachim, age 4; Adam, age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.

Carl Luder [sic], his wife Elisabeth, and children (Joh. Delloff, age 18; Carl, age 17; Christ. Ludewig, age 10½; Johann Joachim, age 4; Margaretha [perhaps a step-daughter], age 4; Johan Adam, age ½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Christoph Kummer, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.

Joh. Christian [sic] Kummer, his wife Johanna Elisabeth, and daughter Joh. Christina (born en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that newborn daughter Joh. Christina also died en route.

Thomas Krämer, a single farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 7 June 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 89.

The 1767 census records that Thomas Krämer came from the German region of Dessau.

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