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Johann Nicolaus Walsborn [sic] and his wife Eva Cathrina are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Widower Johannes Wolsborn [erroneously translated as Dormann in some documents], a merchant (Kaufmann), settled in the Volga German colony of Frank on 1 September 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 116.

His son Valentin is recorded on the 1798 census of Frank in Household No. Fk097.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Dormann came from the German region of Hamburg.

Peter Schmidt, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Frank and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 24.

Widower Peter Schmidt and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Frank in Household No. Fk044.

The 1767 census records that Peter Schmidt came from the German village of Lenrot in the Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter.

Friedrich Schapf, a single craftsman (Handwerker), settled in the Volga German colony of Frank and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 108 along with a note that he's working as a day laborer (Lohnarbeiter).

The 1767 census records that Friedrich Schapf came from the German village of Laudenbach in the Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter.

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

Michael Lüsemann, a single farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Frank and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 62.

The 1767 census records that Michael Lüsemann came from the German village of Weisenbach in the Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter. This could be the village of Weisenbach in Kreis Rhein-Neckar of Baden-Württemberg.

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

Anna Elisabeth Herzog, widow of an unnamed farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Frank and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 70.

The 1767 census records that Anna Elisabeth Herzog came from the German village of Fauerbach in the Hessen-Darmstadt region.

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

Widow Margaretha LeBlanc is recorded on the 1798 census of Franzosen in Household No. Fz46. It is believed that the Peter LeBlanc recorded on the 1798 census of Grimm in Household No. Gm180 is her son.

The LeBlanc family has not been located on the 1767 census.

Konrad Göbel, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Rosina, and orphan Christina Hein (age 12½; daughter of the deceased Johann Georg Hein) settled in the Volga German colony of Göbel on 25 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 60.

It is after Konrad Göbel that the colony of Göbel took its name.

Widower Konrad Göbel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Göbel in Household No. Gb06.

Lorenz Göbel, son of Konrad Göbel, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Göbel in Household No. 8.

Adam Bauschneck, a farmer, and his wife Maria Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Göbel on 20 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 6.

The 1767 census records that Adam Bauschneck came from the German village of Nadelgerheim [?] in the Kurpfalz region.