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Konrad Beckel, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.

Konrad Beckel, a farmer, and his wife Anna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 79. It is not known in which colony they eventually settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Beckel came from the German region of Bayreuth. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Erlbach.

Christian [sic] Michaelis, a barber, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.

Fertinand Michaelis and his wife Loussa [sic] Maria are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.

Ferdinand Michaelis, a barber (Friseur), his wife Maria, and daughter Dorothea (age 6-months) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 76. It is not known in which colony they eventually settled.

Johann Herr, a farmer, and his wife Dorothea are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 73. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Johann Herr came from the German region of Mecklenburg.

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

Johann Rothenburg, a stocking maker, his wife Anna, and daughter Magdalena (age 18) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson.

Johannes Rothenburg, his wife Catarina [sic], and daughter Magdalena (age 18) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Catarina [sic] died in route.

Johann Rothenburg, a farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 71.

Orphan Katharina Fink (age 12) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 63 along with the Tiedemann Hahn family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Hahn and Fink families.

Katharina Fink is assumed to have settled in the colony of Basel because that's where the Hahn family settled.

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

Orphan Konrad Folnis (age 16) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 56 along with the Johann Kaspar Schmidt family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Folnis and Schmidt families.

His is assumed to have settled in the colony of Hockerberg because that's where the Schmidt family settled.

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

Christian Müller, a farmer, and his wife Christina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 60. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.

The 1767 census records that Christian Müller came from the German village of Katzenbach.

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

Konrad Dick, a farmer, his wife Susanna, and daughter Elisabeth (age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of skipper Johann Joachim Janson.

Conrad Dick, his wife Susanna, and daughter Elisabeth (age 1½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that both Conrad and his infant daughter Elisabeth died in route.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Dick came from the German region of Darmstadt.