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Christoph Lenert and his wife Anna [?] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.

Christoph Lenert is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Christoph Lenert (age 20) and his brother Christoph (age 9) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 32 along with their stepfather Johann Joachim Eimknecht [Jungknecht]. [It appears that the 9-year-old Christoph is probably Christian, the son of Johann Joachim Jungknecht rather than the brother of Christoph Lenert.]

Christian Diethorn, his wife Katharina, and son Hans Georg (age 15) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 34 along with his stepson Friedrich König (age 3).

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census records that Christian Diethorn came from the German region of Bamberg.

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

Friedrich König (age 3) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 34 aong with his mother and stepfather Christian Diethorn.

It is not known in which colony he settled.

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

Margaretha Roth, widow of an unnamed farmer, and her daughters (Anna, age 11; Katharina, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.

Widow Anna Marg. Roth and her children (Anna Margaretha, age 12; Anna Catharina, age 4; Johannes, newborn) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that newborn son Johannes died in route.

Andreas Müller, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and sons (Johannes, age 15; Georg, age 5) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 36 along with stepdaughter Katharina Roth (age 4).

It is not known in which colony they settled.

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

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

Barbara Zeiser (age 15) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 37 along with her mother and stepfather, Ziborius Würtz.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

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

Ziborius Würtz, a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 37 along with stepdaughter Barbara Zeiser (age 15).

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census records that Ziborius Würtz came from the German village of Semmerdinger [?].

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

Widower Wihelm Grah, a leatherworker (Lederarbeiter), and his daughters (Christina, age 8; Katharina, age 7; Gertrude, age 5) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 46.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census records that Wilhelm Grah came from the German village of Arsalen [?].

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

Johann Lehl, a farmer, his wife Gertrude, and daughter Maria (age 1) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 45.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census records that Johann Lehl came from the German region of Bamberg.

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