VGI Updates

Johann Michael Parnikel (age 39), a merchant (Kaufmann), and his wife Maria Elisabeth née Guttenberg (age 33) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 87 along with a note that they are beurlaubt [on leave] in Kazan.

The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Johann Michael Parnikel came from the German village of Rothenburg ob der Taube and that his wife came from the village of Erlangen in the Bayreuth region.

Samuel Rösner, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria née Balzer (widow Bramm), daughter Anna Elisabeth (age 4), and step-sons (Johann Heinrich Michael Bram, age 16; August Bram, age 7) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 55.

Widower Samuel Rösner and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka056.

The Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Samuel Rösner came from Denmark and his wife came from the German village of Burhartsfeld in the region of Hessen.

Johann Beuss, a gardener (Gärtner), his wife Anna [widow] Hell, children (Antonia, age 14; Johanna, age 3), and step-daughter Maria [Hell] (age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 43. They had settled there on 27 August 1766.

Widow Maria Elisabeth Willetach and her daughter Anna Dorothea moved from Basel to Moscow in 1777.

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

Martin Kal [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna, and [step-]daughter Christina [Lassen] (age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Martin Capelle [sic], his wife Anna, and [step-]daughter Christiana [sic] (age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.