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Johannes Bindewald, son of the late Johannes Bindewald from Meiches, & Anna Catharian Kenel, daughter of Joh. Georg Kenel from Walerode, were married 18 August 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Schlitz.

Johannes Bindewald, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Christina (age 2-weeks) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 30.

Johannes Bindewald and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Meinhard in Household No. Mn33.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Bindewald came from the German village of Mengers [?].

The marriage of Johann Georg Bergholz and the widow Sophia Lindemannn is recorded on 3 August 1766 in the parish church of Coswig:

"den 3. August [1766] ist Johann George Berkholtz, Russischer Kaiserlicher Kolonist in Katharinalehn, Johann George Berkholtzes, Ackermanns bei Zittau, ehe[lic]h[er] ältester Sohn und Frau Sophia Lindemannin, geb[orene] Schmiedin, verstorbenen N. Lindemanns, Ackermanns in Dermerstorst in Hessen Kasselschen nachge[la]ss[ene] Witwe in hiesiger Kirche getrauet worden."

Johann Georg Faust & Anna Catharina Kalb were married on 22 March 1766 at the Lutheran Church in Büdingen.

Johann Faust, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronstadt under the command of Lieutenant Samuel Gibbs.

His wife Anna Maria is recorded on the 1767 census of Urbach in Household No. 10 along with a note that her husband had died on the way from St. Petersburg to Saratov. Anna Maria remarried to Friedrich Hanisch.

Friedrich Enike, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Anna Elisabeth settled in the Volga German village of Urbach on 13 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 8.

The 1767 census records that Friedrich Enike came from the German village of Barby in the Sachsen region and that his wife came from the German village of Busecker Tal in the Darmstadt region.

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

Johann Bott, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Magdalena, and daughter Anna Elisabeth (age 3-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Urbach in Household No. 36. They had settled there on 3 July 1767.

The 1767 census records that Johann Bott came from the German village of Steffin in Brandenburg.

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

Efrosinia Bettheusen (age 16½) and her sister Maria Elisabeth (age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Urbach in Household No. 54 along with their stepfather Johann Georg Eichhorn.

The 1767 census does not record from where the Bettheusen sisters came.

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

Ulrich Balzer, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Magdalena, and daughter Anna Margaretha (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Urbach in Household No. 46. They settled there on 3 July 1767.

The 1767 census records that Ulrich Balzer came from the German village of Mühlried in the Württemberg region.

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

The widow and daughter of Andreas Marquardt are recorded on the 1798 census of Urbach in Household No. Ur25.

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

Johann Schwartz and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Urbach in Household No. Ur05.