Johann Martin Menge, a single farmer, is recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (No. 163) appended to the 1767 census. It is not known in which colony he settled.
The 1767 census records that Johann Martin Menge came from the German village of Schwimbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Konrad Ignatius, a single tailor (Schneider), is recorded on a list of Beauregard Recruits (No. 164) appended to the 1767 census. It is not known in which colony he settled.
The 1767 census records that Konrad Ignatius came from the German village of Neustadt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Volga German families settled in and around Raymond, Alberta.
The marriage of Anna Maria Eber & Wilhelm Heinrich Luhm is recorded in the parish register of Coswig on 20 July 1766. It reads as follows:
"den 20. Juli 1766 Ist Wilhelm Heinrich Luhm, Knopfmacher und Kaiserlicher Russischer Kolonist zu Katharinalehn, verstorbenen Meisters Wilhelm Heinrich Luhms, Bürgers und Sattlers in Stettin, nachgelassener ehelicher Sohn und Jungfrau Anna Maria Ebern, Andreas Ebers, Ackermanns in Rauen bei Welckershein eheliche Tochter in hiesiger Kirche getraut worden."
The widow and son (Heinrich Metyard, age 14) of Peter Metyard from Meinhard are recorded on the 1798 census of Näb in Household No. Nb35.
Blumental (also called Blumenfeld) first appears on a 1873 list of populated places in the Stavropol district, located adjacent to a village of the landowner Zolotarev. [The colony of Friedrichsfeld was founded on Zolotarev's land in 1884.]
It was located on the right bank of the Big Kugulta [Бол. Кугульта] River about 80 kilometers northeast of Stavropol.
There are a couple of recorded versions of the estabishment of Blumental.
Friedrichsfeld was founded in 1885 by ethnic German colonists relocating from the Kherson Province. They were later joined by Volga German colonists relocating from both the Saratov and Samara Provinces.
The colonists bought 4,000 desyatins on the right bank of the Big Kugulta [Бол. Кугульта] River about 70 kilometers northeast of Stavropol from Fyodor Zolotarev after whom the village took its Russian name of Zolotarevka.
In 1941, all of the German inhabitants were deported to Asiatic Russia.
Bethel was founded in 1879 along the right bank of the Big Kugulta [Бол. Кугульта] River about 70 kilometers northeast of Stavropol.
The original families that settled in Bethel came directly from Prussia. They were joined by Black Sea and Volga German colonists resettling from the Kherson, Taurida, and Samara Provinces and Bessarabia.
During the Russian Civil War (1917) the village was badly damaged by fire and many families fled to the colonies of the northern Black Sea region.
In 1941, the remaining German inhabitants of Bethel were deported to Asiatic Russia.
Martinsfeld was a colony founded in 1868, but there were German-Russian inhabitants living there as early as 1865. It was located on the right bank of the Big Kugulta [Бол. Кугульта] River about 70 kilometers northeast of Stavropol. The land (2,018 desyatins) had been purchased from State Councilor Martinov after whom it was named.
Early inhabitants were Black Sea and Volga German colonists resettling from the Kherson, Taurida, and Samara Provinces and Bessarabia.
In 1915, the village was renamed to Martinovka.