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Konrad Kracht, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Helena, age 17; Jakob, age 7; Adam, age 6-months) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 114 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Paulskaya in 1768.

In 1786, Johann Jakob Kracht moved from Meinhard to Kaneau.

The 1767 census records that Konrad Kracht came from the German village of Lohr.

Joseph Kott, a farmer, and his wife Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Paulskaya on 22 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 41 along with the orphan Sophia Friedrich. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Kott and Friedrich families.

The 1767 census records that Joseph Kott came from the German region of Bayreuth.

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

Michael Karus [sic], a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Michael Kohlmey [sic] is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Michael Kohlmeier, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Paulskaya on 7 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 52.

There are two Wenzel families that settled in the Volga German colony of Volmer on 18 July 1767. Their relationship to each other is not recorded on the 1767 census, but they are presumed to be brothers.

(1) Wilhelm Wenzel (age 30), a farmer, is recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 25 along with his wife Katharina and [step]children (Burghardt, age 20; Katharina, age 14; Appolonia, age 13; Anna Margaretha, age 4).

Widow Ursula Schuck (whose first husband was Johann Hecht from Mariental) is recorded on the 1798 census of Zug in Household No. Zg22.

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

[Johann] Heinrich Schütz, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his wife Marianna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.

Johann Heinrich Schütz and his wife Maria Barbara are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Jost on 19 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 65.

Johann [Simon] Baumann, a farmer, his wife Maria, and son Jakob [Benedict] (age 1½) arrived from Reval [Estonia] on 30 May 1766 aboard the pink Lopamink under the command of Lueitenant Kryukov.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Jost on 5 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 27.

Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Simon Baumann came from the German town of Lübeck.

Johann Friedrich Heiling, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Jakob, age 13; Anna Maria, age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Jost in Household No. 53. They had settled there on 19 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Johann Friedrich Heiling came from the German village of Löwenstein in the region of Schwaben (Swabia).

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

David or Daniel Gebhardt, a single farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Jost on 5 September 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 84 along with a note that he is working as a day-laborer for Christian Hausmann.

The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Halle in the Brandenburg region.

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