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Hauck*

Johann Friedrich Hauck, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his wife Anna Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Jost on 5 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 26 along with stepson Johann Georg Heuser (age 16).

Widower Friedrich Hauck is recorded on the 1798 census of Jost in Household No. Jo54 along with a note that he left the colony in 1796 and that his whereabouts are unknown.

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

Egof

Michael Egof, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his wife Susanna 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 Michel Ehoff and his wife Maria Magdalena 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. Michael is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 49 along with his new wife Maria Magdalena.

Büschel (Jost-2)

Georg Michael Böschel [sic] & Barbara Fechinger were married on 18 June 1766 in Roßlau.

Georg Michael Büschel, a farmer, and his wife Eva Barbara arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the snow-brig Frei Gebruder under the command of Skipper Minzberger.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Jost on 19 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 67.

The 1767 census records that Michael Büschel came from the German village of Bretten in the Kurpfalz region.

Bröse

There are two Bröse families that settled in the Volga German colony of Jost. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

(1) Johann Christoph Bröse, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Sophia Dorothea (age 9) settled in the Volga German colony of Jost on 19 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 35.

The 1767 census records that Johann Christoph Bröse came from the German village of Mahndorf in the region of Anhalt-Zerbst.

Berker*

Orphan Hartmann Berker (age 19) settled in the Volga German colony of Jost on 5 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 1 along with the Johann Gottfried Jost family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Berker and Jost families.

The 1767 census does not record from where Hartmann Berker came.

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

Benz (Jost)*

Christoph Heinrich Benz, a miller (Müller), and his wife Anna Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Jost on 19 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 32 along with stepsons [perhaps brothers?] Lorenz (age 17) and Daniel (age 16) [surnames not recorded].

The 1767 census records that Christoph Heinrich Benz came from the German village of Rathenow in the Brandenburg region.

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