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Klaus (Paulskaya)*

Georg Klaus, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Margaretha (age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 22. They had settled there on 23 July 1767.

The 1767 census records that Georg Klaus came from the German village of Gettorf.

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

Kitschler (Paulskaya)*

Johann [Georg] Kitschler, his wife Katharina, and children (Anna, age 5; Johann, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Paulskaya on 23 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 75.

The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Kitschler came from the German village of Marburg in the Hessen region.

Guttmann (Kraft)

David Roth, a farmer, his wife Eleonora, and son Johann Michael (age 5½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the ship Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg. David Roth & Anna Eleonora Möbus had been married in 1765 in Büdingen, so this Johann Michael is not their son. He is believed to be Johann Michael Guttmann, probably a child from an earlier marriage of Anna Eleonora Möbus.

In 1788, Michael Guttmann moved from Kraft to Messer.

Sagel

Erasmus [sic] Eberling, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and sons (Friedrich, age 8; Daniel Wilhelm, age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov. Based upon his age, it is possible that this Friedrich is a stepson, and that his surname is Sagel.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Kraft on 18 August 1767. Zacchaeus [sic] Eberling and his family are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 41.

Köhler (Paulskaya)

Johann [Wilhelm] Köhler, a joiner (Tischler), his wife Susanna, and sons (Kaspar, age 19; Gerhard, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Johann Wilhelm Köhler, his wife Susanna, and sons (Johann Caspar, age 19; Gerhard, age 9) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Hoffmann (Paulskaya)

Johann[es] Hoffmann, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johann [Heinrich], age 20; Kornelius, age 16½; Elisabeth, age 12; Anna, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Johann Hoffmann, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johann Heinrich, age 20; Cornelius, age 16; Eisabeth, age 12; Maria Catharina, age 6) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Henicke*

Gottfried Henicke (age 13) and his sister Johanna (age 16) are recorded on the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 63 along with the family of Konrad Schneider. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Henicke and Schneider families.

The 1767 census does not record from where the Henicke family came.

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

Heisner (Paulskaya)

Johann Heinrich Heisner, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Paulskaya on 23 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 16.

The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Heisner came from the German village of Saalfeld.