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Jakob Heinrich [Mehl], a farmer, and his wife Magdalena settled in the Volga German colony of Dinkel on 12 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 20.

Jakob Heinrich [Mehl] and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dinkel in Household No. Dn35.

The death of Jakob Heinrich Mehl in 1804 is recorded on the 1811 census of Dinkel in Household No. 36.

Jakob Wilhelm Mehl, son of Jakob Heinrich Mehl, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Dinkel in Household No. 14.

There are three Ehler orphans recorded on the 1767 census of Dinkel. Two are recorded as brothers and stepsons of Hans Hartmann in Household No. 37. The third is recorded as the stepson of Heinrich Hollbeck in Household No. 47.

The 1767 census does not record from where the Ehler children came.

Joachim Heinrich Böll, a farmer, and his wife Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Dinkel on 12 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 21.

Andreas Ulrich Bell, son of the deceased Heinrich Bell, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dinkel in Household No. Dn26.

The 1767 census records that Joachim Heinrich Böll came from the German village of Klostob [?] in the region of Holstein.

Adolf Krohn, a teacher (Lehrer), and his wife Katharina Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof on 18 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 85.

Jakob Andreas, a farmer, his wife Eva Katharina, and daughters (Anna Katharina, age 12; Katharina Barbara, age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 42. They had settled there on 21 July 1766.

The 1767 census records that Jakob Andreas came from the German region of Kurpfalz.

Johann Zacharius Baus, a cobbler, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum aboard the Russian galliot Citadel on 11 August 1766.

Zacharias Bauss and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Elisabeth died en route.

Johann Zacharias Baus, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Anna Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof on 18 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 102.

Hans Georg Beier immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Flensburg on 1 May 1762 as the servant of Christoph Wanner.

He deserted the Danish colonies on 11 May 1765 and joined the migration to Russia.

He settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof on 21 July 1766. Hans Georg Beier, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and daughter Anna Margaretha (age 1½) are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 46.

The 1767 census records that Hans Georg Beier came from the German region of Würzburg.

Johann Wilhelm Böhm, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and son Johann Heinrich (age 2-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 50. They had settled there on 21 July 1766.

In 1794, Johann Wilhelm Böhm left Dönhof.

Wihelm Böhm and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dönhof in Household No. Dh040.

The sons of Wilhelm Böhm are recorded on the 1834 census of Dönhof in Household No. 99 along with a note that Johann Heinrich Böhm had relocated to the colony of Kaneau in 1827 [sic].

Orphan Sophia Hack (age 6), daughter of the deceased Christoph Hack, is recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 26 along with the Konrad Queissner family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Hack and Queissner families.

The 1767 census does not record from where Sophia Hack came.

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

Georg Hans, a farmer, his wife Anna, and stepsons (Johannes Ort, age 13; Martin Ort, age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 43. They had settled there on 21 July 1766.

The 1767 census records that Georg Hans came from the German region of Holstein.

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