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Hipp*

Johann Konrad Hipp (age 17) is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 115 along with his step-father Kaspar Kraft (age 30). The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register also records that Johann Konrad Hipp died in 1783.

The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Johann Konrad Hipp came from the village of Oranienbaum in the region of Anhalt-Dessau.

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

Degraf (Stahl am Karaman)*

Sepketz Degraf (age 32 in 1814) served in the 33th Infantry Regiment of Napoleon's army and fought against the Russians. He was captured by the Russians and on 2 September 1814 was settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Karaman.

Milovidov records that as of 1814 his father, mother, three brothers, and three sisters were still living in Dainoma [?].

Milovidov records that Sepketz Degraf came from the town of Dainoma [?] in Holland [The Netherlands].

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