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Konrad Pfeifer, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Margaretha, and children (Magdalena, age 6; Kilian, age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Walter in Household No. 25. They had settled there on 25 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Konrad Pfeifer came from the German village of Roth in the Ansbach region.

Christina Müller, widow of a craftsman (Handwerker), and her children (Martin, age 24; Georg, age 18; Anna, age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Walter in Household No. 74. They had settled there on 25 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Christina Müller came from the German village of Hausheim [?] in the region of Erbach.

Jakob Mehling, a farmer, and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Walter on 25 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 49.

The 1767 census records that Jakob Mehling came from the German village of Boleig [?] in the Durlach region.

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

Johann Dietrich Kaiser, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Anna Barbara, and children (Jakob Friedrich, age 10; Klara Margaretha, age 6; Johann, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum aboard the galliot Der Jan under the command of Skipper Markus Dragun.

Johann Diedrich Kayser [sic], his wife Anna Barbara, and children (Joh. Jacob Fridrich, age 12; Clara Magdalena, age 7; Johannes, age 2) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Heinrich Ludwig Weigel, a goldsmith (Goldschmied), and his wife Anna Pastern are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 120. They had settled there on 1 March 1767.

The 1767 census records that Heinrich Ludwig Weigel came from the German town of Leipzig in Sachsen (Saxony).

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

Christoph Gottlieb Walbe, a Prussian Lieutenant, and his wife Theresa settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 117.

The 1767 census records that Christoph Gottlieb Walbe came from the German region of Böhmen (Bohemia).

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

Johannes Michael Volk, a mason (Maurer), his wife Katharina, and daughters (Christina, age 13; Katharina, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 85. They had settled there on 27 August 1766.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Michael Volk came from the German village of Benshausen in Sachsen (Saxony).

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