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Fideliut [?] Damm / Domm, a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 11 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 25.

The 1767 census records that Fideliut Damm / Domm came from the German village of Hitzhofen [?] in the region of Hanzzoler [Hohenzollern?].

Christian [sic] Tinike, a farmer, and his wife Johanna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.

Christian Tiniecke and his wife Anna Sophia are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 3 August 1767. Christoph [sic] Tinike is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 88 along with his wife Sophia.

Johann Jakob Schulz, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 17 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 49.

The 1767 census records that Johann Jakob Schulz came from the German village of Senburg [?].

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

Heinrich Jäger, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of the Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.

Joh. Heinr. Jäger is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Widow Anna Katharina Trapp, her daughters Susanna Trapp (wife of Gerhardt Froschhauser) and Magdalena Trapp (who later married Lorenz Rickert) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the pink Cargo under the command of Lieutenant Moses Davydov.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 21 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Households No. 81 & 82.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Magdalena Trapp came from the German region of Mainz.

Johann Georg Schormer, his wife Maria Sophia, and son Georg (age 20) settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 64.

The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Schormer came from the German village of Nordheim.

Johann Peter Schmidt (age 5) along with his mother and stepfather (Johann Georg Gross) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the Russian galliot Strelna under the command of Lieutenant Sornev.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 58.

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

Johannes Schmidt, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 28.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Schmidt came from the German village of Weilburg in the Erbach region.

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