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Michael Wunder is recorded on the 1798 census of Moor in Household No. Mo23 along with his son Nikolaus. His sons are recorded there in Households No. Mo03 (Johannes) & Mo56 (Adam).

Nikolaus Wunder and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Moor in Household No. 31.

Johannes Wunder and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Moor in Household No. 3 along with a note that Johannes had died in 1830.

Adam Wunder and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Moor in Household No. 75.

Johann Heinrich Bott and his wife Anna Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard the Russian pink Vologda under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev.

Heinrich Bott and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on the 1767 census of Müller in Household No. 26. They had settled there on 16 August 1767.

Johann Heinrich Bott and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Müller in Household No. Ml08 along with a note that he was working in Dreispitz.

Johann Peter Going, a wheelwright (Stellmacher), his wife Maria Elisabeth, and daughter Anna Elisabeth (age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Müller in Household No. 15. They had settled there on 16 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Johann Peter Going came from the German village of Altheim in the Darmstadt region.

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

Johann[es] Keil, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and sons (Johann, age 19; Konrad, age 15) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the barque named Fortitudo under the command of Skipper John Scott.

They are recorded on the 1767 census of Müller in Household No. 32. They had settled there on 16 August 1767.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann[es] Keil came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Babenhausen in the Darmstadt region.

Balthasar Kelker [sic], an orphan (age 18), settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof on 18 June 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 99 along with his sister Margaretha (age 24) and her husband Kaspar Nuss.

Johann Balthasar Keller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Müller in Household No. Ml37.

In 1795, Johannes Keller moved from Müller to Dreispitz.

Johann Keller from Müller is recorded on the 1798 census of Dreispitz in Household No. Dr21.

The 1767 census does not record from where Balthasar Keller came.

Johann Valentin Kisserling, a weaver (Weber), and his wife [Anna] Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the pink Cargo under the command of Lieutenant Moses Davydov.

Valentin Kisserling, his wife Anna Margaretha, and daughter Anna Elisabeth (age 9-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Müller in Household No. 30. They had settled there on 16 August 1767.

Andreas Rack, a farmer, his wife Anna Katharina, and children (Anna Elisabeth, age 15; Johann Konrad, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Müller in Household No. 3. They had settled there on 16 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Andreas Rack came from the German village of Zell.

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

Jakob Weigandt, a single man, is recorded on the 1767 census of Müller in Household No. 25 along with the Konrad Saltzmann family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Weigandt and Saltzmann families.

The 1767 census does not record from where Jakob Weigandt came.

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

Johann Ludwig Heiderbach [sic], a saddle maker (Sattler), and his wife [Anna] Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the pink Novaya Dvinka under the command of Lieutenant Perepechin.

Ludwig Edelbach [sic] and his wife Anna Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Müller on 16 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 17.