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Anton Beauvue, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Anna Maria, and daughter Margaretha (age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Göbel in Household No. 22. They had settled there on 20 June 1767.

The 1767 census records that Anton Beauvue came from the French village of Walbourg.

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

Johann Adam Weber (age 30) from Grimm is recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt064. His relationship, if any, to the other Weber families in Grimm is unknown.

The death of [Johann] Adam Weber in 1825 is recorded on the 1834 census of Walter in Household No. 120.

Adam Weber, grandson of Johann Adam Weber, is recorded on the 1857 census of Walter in Household No. 121 along with a note that he relocated to the daughter colony of Brunnental [date not recorded].

Daniel Zieg and his wife Elisabeth Barbara are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 23.

There to not appear to be any surviving male lines of this Zieg family among the Volga German colonies.

Michael Werner and his wife Anna Katharina are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 166.

Michael and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Grimm in Household No. Gm026.

Philipp Trebe, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and daughter Anna Elisabeth (age 14) are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 109.

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

Johannes Schiel (age 19) and his siblings Jakob (age 18) and Maria (age 17) settled in the Volga German colony of Göbel and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 30 along with their stepfather Lorenz Person.

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

Widow Barbara Ziegler settled in the Volga German colony of Göbel on 20 June 1767. She is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 31 along with her daughter Magdalena and son-in-law Johannes Haberkorn.

The 1767 census does not record from where Barbara Ziegler came.

There is a Mar. Magd. Ziegler from Miltenberg recorded as the godmother of Maria Magdalena Holzmeister who was baptized 19 April 1766 in Büdingen.

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

Johann Georg Schmidt, his wife Katharina Elisabeth, and children (Johann Philipp, age 4½; Maria Barbara, age ¾; Elisabeth Margaretha, age ¾) are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 35. Also recorded in the household are stepdaughters Maria Elisabeth (age 9) & Anna Maria (age 8) Fries and orphan Margaretha Riegel (age 21). The 1775 census of Grimm does not record a relationship among the Schmidt, Fries, and Riegel families.

Orphan Margaretha Riegel (age 21) is recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 35 along with the Johann Georg Schmidt family. The 1775 census does not record a relationship between the Riegel and Schmidt families.

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