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Ort (Dönhof)*

Brothers Johannes Ort (age 13) and Martin Ort (age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 43 along with their stepfather Georg Hans. They had settled there on 21 July 1766.

The 1767 census does not record from where these Ort brothers came.

Rudeloff*

Johann Gottfried Rudeloff, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Christina Helena settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof on 18 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 101.

The 1767 census records that Johann Gottfried Rudeloff came from the German region of Magdeburg.

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

Ruppert*

Anna Margaretha Ruppert, daughter of the deceased Johann Ruppert, is recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 100 along with her stepfather Johann Heinrich Kisselmann.

The 1767 census does not record from where Johann Ruppert came.

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

Sitzinger*

Heinrich Sitzinger, a blacksmith (Schmied), and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof on 12 February 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 53.

In 1795, the marriage of Susanna Margaretha Sitzinger, daughter of Heinrich Sitzinger, to someone in Dietel is recorded on the Movement Table that accompanies the 1798 census of Dönhof. She actually married Gottlieb Gergins in Kratzke (which was part of the Dietel parish).

The 1767 census reocrds that Heinrich Sitzinger came from the German region of Hannover.

Baumann (Beideck)*

Karl Friedrich Baumann and his wife Eva Katharina are recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Supplemental Household No. 3 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Dönhof in 1768, but returned to Beideck.

Eva Katharina, whose deceased husband was Friedrich Baumann, is recorded on the 1798 census of Beideck in Household No. Bd92.

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

Beck (Beideck)*

Kaspar [sic] Bernhard Beck, a sexton, his wife Dorothea Margaretha, and children (Johann Christian & Dorothea Margaretha) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 July 1766 aboard the Russian packet-boat named Lebed (Swan) under the command of Lieutenant Timofey Yelchin.

Karl [sic] Bernhard Beck, his wife Dorothea Margaretha, and son Johann (age 14) are recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Supplement No. 2. A note on the 1775 census records that he was being paid a salary as a box maker.

Schmidt (Grimm-5)*

Johann Wilhelm Schmidt, a single carpenter (Tischler), is recorded on the 1767 census of Grimm in Household No. 33.

The 1767 census records that Johann Wilhelm Schmidt came from the German village of Imkelburg in the Rüdesheim area.

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

Schäfer (Grimm-3)

Widow Eva Elisabeth Schäfer and her children (Jakob, age 22; Johann Kaspar, age 20; Eva Eisabeth, age 16; Johann Georg, age 13; Anna Margaretha, age 9) immigrated to Schleswig-Holstein (Denmark) arriving in the town of Schleswig on 30 May 1761.

On 8 August 1761, Eva Elisabeth Schäfer and the younger children are recorded on the farmstead of "Lille Dannemark" in the Danish colony of Julianenebene.

The parish register of Kropp [Denmark] records on 2 July 1761 the marriage of Jacob Schäfer to Anna Cathrina Bärch.