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Zeutsch*

Widow Anna Dorothea Zeutsch and her daughters (Katharina, age 16; Maria, age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 44. They had settled there on 7 June 1767.

The 1767 census records that Anna Dorothea Zeutsch came from the German village of Rosenfeld in the Dessau region.

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

Lohr (Boisroux-2)*

Johann Lohr, a physician (Arzt), and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 3 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.

Joh. Gottl. Lohr and his wife Anna Maria are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Dieck

Peter Dieck was born in approximately 1795.  He served in Napoleon's army and fought against the Russians.  He was captured by the Russians, and in 1812, was settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Karaman where he is recorded on the 1834 census in Household No. 72.

He is recorded on the 1850 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 107 along with a note that he and his family had relocated to the colony of Dreispitz. Peter Dieck from Stahl am Karaman is recorded on the 1850 census of Dreispitz in Household No. 132.

Heidt (Kutter)

Johann Peter Heidt was born in approximately 1792.  He served in Napoleon's army and fought against the Russians.  He was captured by the Russians, and in 1812, was settled in the Volga German colony of Kutter.

In 1820, he relocated to the Volga German colony of Sewald. He and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Sewald in Household No. 52.

He is recorded still living on the 1857 census of Sewald in Household No. 55.

Gei

Gottfried Gei was born in approximately 1784, probably in France.  He served in Napoleon's army and fought against the Russians.  He was captured by the Russians, and in 1812, was settled in the Volga German colony of Kutter.

Gottfried Gei is recorded on the 1834 census of Kutter in Household No. 144 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Semenovka. Gottfried Gei from Kutter is recorded on the 1834 census of Semenovka in Household No. 29.

Gottfried Gei is not recorded on the 1857 census of Semenovka.

Schembeck, Georg Joseph

Bishop Georg Joseph Schembeck was born in 1851. He studied theology at the Catholic Seminary in Saratov and was ordained in 1893. He served as the rector of the St. Clements Catholic Church in Saratov from 1893 to 1901 during which time he also taught at the seminary.

He is responsibility for the construction of the Catholic Church in Tsaritsyn (Volgograd) as well as the prayer house and school in Engels.