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Ehrlich (Kaneau-2)

Johann Georg Ehrlich, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Susanna, and children (Maria Dorothea, age 15; Johann Christian, age 14; Gottlieb, age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 44. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.

In 1786, Georg Ehrlich and his family moved from Kaneau to Schaffhausen.

In 1786, Gottlieb Ehrlich and his family moved from Kaneau to Rosenheim.

In 1787, Christian Ehrlich and his family moved from Orlovskaya to Schaffhausen.

Ehrlich (Kaneau-1)

Gottlieb Ehrlich [other documents identify him as Gottfried Ehrlich], a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and sons (Johann Gottfried, age 13; Gottlieb, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 27. They had settled there on 7 June 1767.

In 1786, Gottfried Ehrlich and his family moved from Kaneau to Schaffhausen.

The 1767 census records that Gottlieb [sic] Ehrlich came from the German region of Dessau.

Kniss (Huck)*

Christina Kniss (age 1½), daughter of the deceased Philipp Kniss, is recorded on the 1767 census of Huck in Household No. 18 along with her stepfather Lorenz Köhler.

The 1767 census does not record from where this Kniss family came.

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

van der Schwan

Joseph van der Schwan, a carpenter (Tischler), and his wife Johanna settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 44.

The 1767 census records that Joseph van der Schwan came from the Dutch town of Amsterdam in Holland.

Selesten*

François Selesten (age 23) is recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 220 along with a note that he was working as a day-laborer (Lohnarbeiter).

The 1767 census does not record from where he came.

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

Wolf (Katharinenstadt)

Joseph Wolf, a maker of braid (Posamenter), his wife Margaretha, and children (Anna, age 11; Christina, age 4; Johann, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder.

Joseph Wolff [sic], his wife Margaretha, and daughters (Anna, age 11; Christina, age 4) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Weltz (Katharinenstadt-2)

Konrad Weltz, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Sophia Korn, and children (Christian August, age 17; Anna Eleonora, age 13) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 65. They had settled there on 27 August 1766.

The widow of August Weltz and their children (Adam, age 19; Dorothea, age 17; Anna Maria, age 15) are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka076.

Adam Weltz, son of August Weltz, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 217.