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Weitzel (Dobrinka)

Martha Dorothea Catharina Weitzel, daughter of Johannes Weitzel & Anan Catharina Michaels, was baptized on 5 June 1766 in the Lutheran Cathedral (Evangelische Kirche Dom) in Lübeck.

Johannes Weitzel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dobrinka in Household No. Db73.

Mihl (Dobrinka)*

Katharina Mihl, widow of an unnamed farmer, and her daughter Sabina (age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dobrinka in Household No. 93. They had settled there on 20 June 1767.

The 1767 census records that Katharina Mihl came from the German village of Reit [?] in the Braunfels region.

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

Klaas (Dobrinka)

Johann Heinrich Klaas and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dobrinka in Household No. Db43.

Heinrich Klaas and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Dobrinka in Household No. 54.

Eulenberg

Karl Eulenberg and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dobrinka in Household No. Db56.

The death of Karl Eulenberg in 1818 is recorded on the 1834 census of Dobrinka in Household No. 77.

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

Ernst (Dobrinka)

Adam Ernst and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dobrinka in Household No. Db03, Db77.

Peter Ernst from Dobrinka and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Stephan in Household No. 24.