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Müller (Dinkel-3)

Christian Müller, a butcher (Fleischer), his wife Katharina, and daughter Margaretha (age 1 month) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dinkel in Household No. 50. They had settled there on 27 July 1767.

The 1767 census records that Christian Müller came from the German village of Dessau in the Anhalt region.

Lippmann

Friedrich Lippmann, a cloth weaver (Tuchweber), and his wife Anna Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Dinkel on 12 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 12.

The 1767 census records that Friedrich Lippmann came from the German village of Loumburg in Brandenburg.

Heckster

Christoph Heckster, a farmer, and his wife Dorothea settled in the Volga German colony of Dinkel on 27 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 33.

The 1767 census records that Christoph Heckster came from the German village of Klinstadt [?] in the Holstein region.

Friedrichsen (Dinkel-2)*

Johann Friedrich Friederichsen & Anna Eleonora Dourothea Margaretha Weinberg were married on 1 June 1766 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.

Johann Friedrichsen, his wife Anna, and wife's sister Anna (age 15) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Johan Fried. Friedrichsen, his wife Anna Eleonora, and wife's sister Maria Wilhelmina Weinberg are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Benedikt (Dinkel)*

Peter Benedikt (age 15) is recorded on the 1767 census of Dinkel in Household No. 29 along with his stepfather Johann Arp.

The 1767 census does not record from where Peter Benedikt came.

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

Appel (Dinkel)*

Anna Appel (age 15) is recorded on the 1767 census of Dinkel in Household No. 7 along with her stepfather Friedrich Stallmann.

The 1767 census does not record from where Anna Appel came.

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

Tino*

Widower Balthasar Tino (age 80), a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Dietel on 1 July 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 30.

The 1767 census records that Balthasar Tino came from the German village of Heimkehr [Heimkirchen?] in the Hessen region.

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

Pikert

Bernhard Pikert is recorded on the Karl Stumpp appendix to the 1767 census of Dietel. The Stumpp appendix also records that Bernhard Pikert came from the German region of Württemberg.