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Brock (Wittmann)*

Widow Johanna Christina Brock is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 52 along with a note that she relocated to the colony of Wittmann in 1768.

The 1767 census records that Johanna Christina Brock came from the German region of Dresden.

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

Dein (Wittmann)

Johann Dehn, his wife Eva, and children (Peter, age 6½; Barbara, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.

Johannes Dehn, his wife Eva, and children (Peter, age 6; Barbara, age 2½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Barbara died en route.

Johannes Dein, a farmer, his wife Eva, and son Peter (age 7) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 28 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Wittmann in 1768.

Müller (Semenovka)

Christian [sic] Müller, a single farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 10 August 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 27 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Semenovka in 1768.

Christoph [sic] Müller is recorded on the 1798 census of Semenovka in Household No. Se62.

The 1767 census records that Christian [sic] Müller came from the German village of Liebstedt in Prussia. [Liebstedt was never located in Prussia; Liebstadt was.]

Danndörfer

Christoph Tanndörfer [sic], a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Ursula, and children (Franz Paulus, age 13; Anna Maria, age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 36. They had settled there on 16 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Christoph Tanndörfer [sic] came from the German village of Bretzfeld in the Bamberg region.

Langhaas*

Michael Langhaas, a stonemason (Steinmetz), his wife Margaretha, and son Albertus (age ¼) are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 153. They had settled there on 15 July 1767.

The 1767 census records that Michael Langhaas came from the German village of Enheim in the Bamberg region.

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

Straat*

Nikolaus Straat, a wool carder (Wollschläger) and his wife Gertrude settled in the Volga German colony of Seelmann on 16 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 33.

The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Straat came from the German village of Siersburg [?] in the Trier region.

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

Strack (Seelmann)

Margaretha Strack (age 15) and her siblings (Simon, age 12; Christoph, age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 52 along with their stepfather Johann Brehne.

It is believed that another sibling, orphan Johann Peter Strack (age 12), is recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 12 along with the Peter Hartmann family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Strack and Hartmann families.

The 1767 census does not record from where these Strack children came.