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Heinrich Bernhardt is recorded on the 1798 census of Moor in Household No. Mo68.

Jakob Bernhardt from Moor is recorded on the 1798 census of Galka in Household No. Gk39.

Christian Fredrich Berend, son of Johann Fredrich Berend & Catharina Ott, was born 14 September 1738 in Berlin.

The parish register of the Reformed Church of Saints Peter & Paul in Danzig records that Christian Behrens [sic] from the Pfalz & Christina [surname illegible] from the Pfalz were married on 23 May 1765 in Danzig.

Christian Berndt, a farmer, his new wife Christina Stien, and sons (Johann Friedrich, age 7; Georg Leonhard Abraham, age 2-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 11. They had settled there on 1 July 1766.

Jakob Degeneau, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Maria Elisabeth, and son Johannes (age 20) are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 52. They had settled there on 18 June 1767.

The 1767 census records that Jakob Degeneau came from the German region of Isenburg.

Nicolaus Eckel married on 13 February 1755 in Vonhausen to Anna Maria Dörr, daughter of Johann Caspar & Anna Catharina Dörr. She had been born 26 February 1718 in Vonhausen.

Nikolaus Eckel, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and [step-]son Balthasar [Dörr] (age 19) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Mattias under the command of Skipper David Wollert.

Maria Elisabeth Guwst, widow of an unnamed craftsman (Handwerker), and her daughter Maria Barbara (age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 49. They had settled there on 18 June 1767.

The 1767 census records that Maria Elisabeth Guwst came from the German region of Kurpfalz.

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

Andreas Kehr, son of Johann Jost Kehr, was baptized in Metzebach on 7 March 1723. He married on 23 August 1750 in Landefeld to Catharina Döring, daughter of Balthas[ar] Döring. 

The baptisms of two children to Johann Jost Kehr & Catharina Döring are recorded in the parish register of Landefeld: (1) Burckhardt, baptized March 11 1753; and (2) Anna Martha, baptized 7 May 1756.

Christina Encke, the daughter of Claus Encke, was born 7 October 1725 in Gelting, Denmark [today located in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, near the Danish border].

She first married an unknown Rübler, and they had a son Friedrich who was born about 1750.

Christina Encke then married Andreas Tiefenthaler [see Tiefenthaler Family]. He was killed in a brawl in 1762. Christina then married Theobald Wagner [see Wagner Family], and they immigrated to Russia.

Georg Heinrich Strauch (age 12) and his siblings (Maria, age 19; Konrad, age 10) are recorded on the 1798 census of Moor in Household No. Mo62.

Johannes Weber, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and children (Johann Heinrich, age 17; Johann Adam, age 12; Anna Maria, age 7½; Johann Paul, age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 50. They had settled there on 18 June 1767.

Johann Heinrich Weber from Moor is recorded on the 1857 census of Hockerberg in Household No. 11.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Weber came from the German village of Gelnhausen.

Heinrich Weber, a farmer, and his wife Christina Helena settled in the Volga German colony of Moor on 18 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 47.

The 1767 census records that Heinrich Weber came from the German region of Isenburg.

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