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Reich (Yagodnaya Polyana)

[Johann] Adam Reich, a miller, his wife Anna, and son Johann[es] (age 17) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronstadt under the command of Lieutenant Samuel Gibbs.

The parents evidently died because Johannes Reich is recorded alone on the 1767 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. 39 along with the Johannes Becher family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Reich and Becher families.

Nebert / Nepert

Karl Nebert and his family (along with his mother Anna Margaretha) are recorded on the 1798 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. Yp53.

Georg Nebert and Heinrich Nebert from Yagodnaya Polyana and their families are recorded on the 1857 census of Neu-Yagodnaya-Polyana.

Müller (Yagodnaya Polyana-4)

Johann Heinrich Müller (age 14) and his sister Anna Maria (age 10), children of the deceased Johann Georg Müller settled in the Volga German colony of Yagodnaya Polyana on 16 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 49 along with the Andreas Fischer family.

The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Müller and Fischer families.

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

Müller (Yagodnaya Polyana-3)*

Helena Margaretha Müller, a single woman, is recorded on the 1767 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. 12 along with the Johann Peter Asmus family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Müller and Asmus families.

The 1767 census does not record from where Helena Margaretha Müller came.

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

Maiber

Johann Daniel Maiber and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. Yp17 along with his half brother Nikolaus Schäfer.

Lahnert

Michael Lahnert, a farmer, and his wife Julianna settled in the Volga German colony of Yagodnaya Polyana on 16 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 42 along with Julianna's brothers Nikolaus Hergert (age 17) and Johann Kaspar Hergert (age 6).

Widow Julianna Lahnert and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. Yp49.

The death of Konrad Lahnert, son of Michael Lahnert, in 1818 is recorded on the 1834 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. 220.

Kroll (Yagodnaya Polyana)

Johann Jakob Kroll (age 12) and his siblings (Anna Maria, age 18; Johann Adam, age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. 23 along with their stepfather Johann Adam Schleiber.

The 1767 census does not record from where the Kroll family came.

Kokon*

Anna Maria Kokon (age 6) settled in the Volga German colony of Yagodnaya Polyana on 16 September 1767. She is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 34 along with her stepfather Johann Peter Stuckart and his family.

The 1767 census does not record from where Anna Maria Kokon came.

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

Gorr (Yagodnaya Polyana)

Nicolaus Gurr [sic], a miller (Müller) from the area of Darmstadt, & Anna Margar. Hartmann from the are of Hanau were married on 1 August 1766 in Pastor Bruns's house in Lübeck. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.

Nikolaus Gorr, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Yagodnaya Polyana on 16 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 58.

Völler (Yagodnaya-Polyana)*

Johann Adam Völler [sic], a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the snow-brig Die Frau Dietrika under the command of Skipper Joachim Friedrich Luhn.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Yagodnaya Polyana on 16 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 54 along with the orphan Peter Hartmann. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Völler and Hartmann families.