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Wahl (Nieder-Monjou)

Johannes Wahl, a farmer, and his wife Magdalena settled in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 85 along with stepchildren with the surname Riehl (Johannes, age 17; Philipp, age 14; Katharina, age 11; Elisabeth, age 9; Kaspar, age 7).

The 1767 census records that Johannes Wahl came from the German region of Darmstadt.

Walter (Nieder-Monjou)*

Philipp Walter, a farmer, and his wife Barbara settled in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 52.

The 1767 census records that Philipp Walter came from the German region of Hessen.

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

Weimer (Nieder-Monjou)

Catharina Elisabeth Weÿer, daughter of Joh. Heinrich Weÿmer & Elisabeth Dorothea Krus, was baptized on 13 October 1765 in St. Peter Lutheran Church in Lübeck.

Heinrich Weimer, an ore miner (Erzbergbauarbeiter), his wife Elisabeth, and children (Georg Wilhelm, age 12; Katharina, age 3-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 110 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Nieder-Monjou in 1768. They had settled in Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766.

Werth (Nieder-Monjou-2)*

Johannes Lorey, a farmer, his wife Anna, and [step-]daughter Magdalena [Werth] (age 15) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson.

Johann[es] Lorey, his wife Anna Utilia, and [step-]daughter Anna Magdalena [Werth] (age 12½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Werth (Nieder-Monjou-3)*

Widower Johann Werth, a farmer, and his daughters (Julianna, ae 12; Margaretha, age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 70. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Johann Werth came from the German village of Breitenbach.

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

Winter (Nieder-Monjou)

Christian Winter, a gardner (Gärtner), and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 84 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Nieder-Monjou in 1768.

The 1767 census records that Christian Winter came from the German region of Frankfurt am Main.

Leinhardt (Orlovskaya)*

Johannes Leinhardt, a farmer, and his wife Albertina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 25 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Orlovskaya in 1768.

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

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

Lempke

Joachim Lemke [sic], a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Katharina, and son Adam (age 2-weeks) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 46 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Orlovskaya in 1768.

In 1797, Gottfried Lemke [sic] moved from Orlovskaya to Paulskaya.

Gottfried Lemke [sic] and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Paulskaya in Household No. Pl12.

Gottfried Lempke and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 61.

Gries (Seelmann)*

Thomas Gries, a farmer, his wife Rosina, and daughter Maria Elisabeth (age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 69. They had settled there on 24 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Thomas Gries came from the German region of Erfurt.

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