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Scherer (Sewald)

Michael Scherer, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and children (Barbara, age 8; Johann, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 July 1766 on a Russian packet-boat named Svyatoi Nikolai (St. Nicholas) under the command of Midshipman Thomas McKenzie.

Michael Scherer and his wife Apollonia are recorded on the 1767 census of Sewald in Household No. 22. They had settled there on 20 August 1767.

Marié

Andreas Marié (age 18) and his siblings (Margaretha, age 10; Johann, age 7; Eva, age 6; Eva Katharina, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen along with their stepfather Georg Hartmann.

Andreas Marié and his sister Eva are recorded on the 1767 census of Sewald in Household No. 31 along with their stepfather Georg Hartmann.

Andreas Marié is recorded on the 1798 census of Sewald in Household No. Sd22.

Nungesser

Nikolaus Nungesser, a miller (Müller), and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Sewald on 20 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 10.

In 1795, Johannes Nungesser moved from Sewald to Seelmann.

Johannes Nungesser is recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Household No. Sm07. 

Johannes Nungesser is recorded on the 1811 census of Seelmann in Household No. 7 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Dehler in 1799.

Fromm (Shcherbakovka)

Leonhard Menges, a farmer, his wife Maria Barbara, and [step?-]sons (Georg Philipp, age 15; Georg Nikolaus, age 12; Georg Peter, age 12) [surname Fromm] are recorded on the 1767 census of Shcherbakovka in Household No. 42. They had settled there on 18 August 1767.

Georg Peter Fromm and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Shcherbakovka in Household No. Sv22.

Georg Peter Fromm and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Shcherbakovka in Households No. 61, 90, & 91.

Fromm (Seelmann)

Joseph Baldauf, a farmer, his wife Ursula, and [stepson] Tobias [Fromm] (age 18) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Der Jäger under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.

Tobias [Fromm] is recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 7 along with his stepfather Joseph Baldauf. They had settled in Seelmann on 15 July 1767.

Widower Tobias Fromm, his son Michael, and Michael's family are recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Household No. Sm27.