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Rauscher (Katharinenstadt)

Anton Räuscher [sic] and Catharina Kuff were married on 3 October 1765 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.

Anton Rauscher, a woodcarver (Schnitzer), his wife Katharina, and son Johann Heinrich (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 32. They had settled there on 27 August 1766.

The 1767 census records that Anton Rauscher came from the German village of Grätz near Steiermark.

Breveau*

Anton Breveau, a barber (Friseur), and his wife Elisabeth Speher are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 148. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Anton Breveau came from the French region of Verdun.

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

Pohl (Katharinenstadt)*

Hieronimus Pohl and Johanna Maria Sophia Berckler were married on 24 October 1765 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.

Hironimus Pohl, a tailor (Schneider), his wife Johann Maria Bakler, and son Johann (age 9-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 70. They had settled there on 27 August 1766.

The 1767 census records that Hironimus Pohl came from the German region of Hanau.

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

Ohl / Uhl (Katharinenstadt)

Peter Ohl/Uhl, a miller (Müller), and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 35.

The 1767 census records that Peter Ohl/Uhl came from the German village of Schlangenbad in the Kurmainz region.

Nitzel*

Heinrich Nitzel [sic], a gardner (Gärtner), and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 127 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Nieder-Monjou in 1768.

Nimkner*

Konrad [Wilhelm] Nimkner [Niemeer?], a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.

Conr. Wilh. Nienieger is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

He settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 3 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 186 along with a note that he is working as a day-laborer (Lohnarbeiter).

Muss (Katharinenstadt)*

Johann Muss (age 15) and his siblings (Anna, age 8; Kaspar, age 3; Dorothea, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 54 along with their stepfather Johann Gottfried Burmeister.

The 1767 census does not record from where the Muss children came.

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

Müller (Katharinenstadt-3)

Andreas Müller and Elisabeth Vogelein were married on 10 October 1765 in St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.

Andreas Müller, a weaver (Weber), his wife Elisabeth, and son Johannes Mattias (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 34. They had settled there on 27 August 1766.

The 1767 census records that Andreas Müller came from the German village of Almerschlach in the Würzburg region.