VGI Updates

Andreas Hartung (age 43), a musician (Musikus), and his wife Katharina [maiden name not recorded] (age 38) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 176 along with a note that he is serving in the Russian Army in St. Petersburg.

The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Andreas Hartung came from the Mittlemark area of Berlin.

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

Nikolaus Japiert (age 31), a carpenter (Tischler), his wife Maria Margaretha [maiden name not recorded] (age 28), and son Franz (age 8) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 173 along with a note that they have been Beurlaubt [on leave] in Saratov since 1772.

The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Nikolaus Japiert came from the town of Liege and that his wife came from the village of Haffeliesse in the region of Liege.

Joachim Sauvegrin (age 41), a French teacher (Französischer Sprachmeister), his wife Anna Françoise née de Franae (age 35), and sons (Jean, age 19; Michel, age 7) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 170 along with a note that they had gone to Pensa in 1772.

The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Joachim Sauvegrin came from the French city of Paris and that his oldest son had been born in Amsterdam.

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

Franz Weissner (age 39), a stocking dyer (Strümpffärber), and his wife Françoise née Vogelgefang (age 31) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 168 along with a note that they had gone to Saratov in 1775.

The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Franz Weissner came from the village of Strassburg and that his wife came from the Fürstenberg Grafschaft.

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

Karl Friedrich Ferdinand von Britzki (age 38), a Prussian soldier, and his wife Katharina Elisabeth née von Thimon (age 37) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 159 along with a note that they had gone to Moscow in 1776.

The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Karl Friedrich Ferdinand von Britzki came from the German village of Knoblauch in the region of Bauch-Göbel and that his wife came from Magdeburg.

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

Ernst Worms von Schmiederberg (age 44), a Prussian Lieutenant (Preussischer Leutenant), his wife Maria Elisabeth née Leon (age 39), and daughters (Wilhelmina Karolina, age 20; Friederika Louisa, age 9½) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 158 along with a note that they are beurlaubt [on leave] in Saratov.

Konrad Rossmann (age 70 in 1816) is recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 259 along with a note that he died in 1823.

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