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Alexander Kopps [sic], a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.

Alexander Kepps is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that he died in route.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Alexander Kepps came from the German region of Pfalz.

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

Eva Jungling, a single woman, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.

Eva Jungling (age 18) is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony she settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Eva Jungling came from the German region of Mainz.

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

Anna Maria Burgardt, a single woman, and her sister Susanna (age 17¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Каргополь (Kargopol: a Russian City) under the command of Captain Lieutenant Moses Davydov.

Anna Maria Burgardt married Johann Hartmann and is recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 83 along with her sister Maria Susanna (age 18). [See Hartmann Family.] They had arrived in Köhler on 21 August 1767.

Katharina Weil, a single woman, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a ship named Der Ringende Jacob (The Wrestling Jacob) under the command of Skipper Johann Heitmann along with the Daniel Oldenburg family. The relationship between the Weil and Oldenburg families is not recorded.

Katharina Weil (age 20) is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony she settled.

Daniel Weigandt, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha [sic], and [step-]daughter Julianna [Kaiser] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Slon (Elephant) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.

They settled in Norka on 15 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 78 along with his stepdaughter, Julianna [Kaiser].

Julianna Weber née Kaiser and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr088.

Anna Cathar. Asmus married on 16 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen to Johann Adam Krüger.

Widower Kaspar Asmus, a farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Slon (Elephant) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov along with his daughter Katharina and her husband Adam Krieger.

Anna Katharina [née Asmus] and her husband Adam Krieger are recorded on the 1767 census of Krasnoyar in Household No. 100. They had arrived in Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767.

Johann Semmel, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and daughter [Anna] Katharina (age 19) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Slon (Elephant) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov along with many other families that settled in the Volga German colony of Norka.

Anna Katharina [Semmel] (age 20) is recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 8 along with her husband Johannes Hamburger and her mother Elisabeth [Semmel] (age 47). They had arrived in Norka on 15 August 1767.

There are two Hix families that arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Jenßen. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

(1) Anton Hix, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived in Oranienbaum.

Anthon [sic] Hix and his wife Utilia are recorded on a list of colonists being transferred from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

Jakob Siebert, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Jacob Sibert [sic] and his wife Anna are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Anna died in route.

It is not known in which colony he settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Siebert came from the German region of Mainz.