Alexander Pappenheim, son of Johann Heinrich Pappenheim & Maria Agatha Seitz, was born on 1 August 1734 and baptized on 4 August 1734 in the Reichelsheim Lutheran Church near Odenwald. He married 15 February 1759 in Groß-Bieberau to Anna Eva Seibert, daughter of Johann Martin Siebert (born about 1688; died 1 September 1756) & Anna Maria Dörr (born 27 February 1695; died 14 December 1760). Anna Eva Seibert had been born 4 November 1733 in Meßbach.
Johann Michael Ott, son of Johann Martin Ott, married Anna Maria Ott, daughter of Johann Michael & Anna Maria Ott, on 5 May 1742 Ötisheim, 59 kilometers southwest of Heilbronn. Anna Maria had been baptized on 4 July 1724 in the Evangelical Church of Ötisheim.
Konrad Ostertag was born in 1718 in Mannheim (today in Baden-Würtemberg). He married Demuth (surname unknown), and they had at least the following seven children, each baptized in the Catholic Church in Böhl, southwest of Mannheim: (1) Johann Jakob, born 1748; (2) Johannes, baptized 7 May 1751; (3) Johann Ludwig, baptized 14 December 1752; (4) Anna Maria, baptized 1 November 1754; (5&6) twins Anna Margaretha & Johann Konrad, baptized 22 August 1757; and (7) Johannes, baptized 12 July 1760.
Johann Georg Orth was born in Lützelbach on 11 February 1745 to Johann Leonhard Orth & Maria Elisabeth Saul. Shortly after his birth, his father (a master cobbler) moved the family to Breitenbrunn where the remainder of Johann Georg's siblings were born.
Georg Orth, a farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
Johann Georg Orth is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Heinrich Jacob Ochsenhirt, son of Sebastian Henrich Ochsenhirt & Anna Margaretha Reichard, was born on 12 June 1729 in Düdelsheim. He was married there on 24 February 1752 to Maria Elisabeth Eyring, daughter of Johannes Eyring of Bruderdiebacher Hof.
Jakob Ochsenhirt, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Maria, and children (Katharina, age 13; Johann, age 11; Elisabeth, age 3; Wilhelmina, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Conrad Oppenländer, son of Johann Michael Oppenländer & Benigna Rosina Goldner, was born on 15 January 1736 in Kleingartach. He married there on 27 January 1761 to Maria Magdalena Mayer, daughter of Valentin Mayer & Christina Catharina Vogt. She had been born there in January 1740.
Two Niedenthal brothers, sons of Johann Peter Niedenthal and Anna Maria Marquart [See Marquardt Family], immigrated from Eckartshausen, Büdingen, Hessen-Darmstadt and settled in the Volga German colony of Kutter. They both arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
Nicolaus Niedecker was born about 1716 in Steinfurth, southeast of Butzbach in Oberhessen. [He was descended from Georg Nicolaus Niedecker, who had come to Steinfurth from Prague.] He married Margaretha, and they had two daughters: (1) Susanna, born 14 June 1750; and (2) Anna Maria, born 10 November 1753.
Johann Wilhelm Neuhard(t), the youngest of Johann Peter & Anna Elisabetha Neuhard's four children, was born 28 February 1728 in Bechlingen (today in Lahn-Dill-Kries, Hesse), west of Giessen. Wilhelm's mother, Anna Elisabetha, died 11 September 1728, and his father remarried shortly thereafter.
Wilhelm married Katharina (surname unknown) and they had a son, Johann Adam, on 4 October 1763 in Bechlingen.
Georg Heinrich Neuberger, son of Martin Neuberger & Maria Magdalena Kern, was born on 25 August 1732 in Altlußheim, southwest of Heidelberg. He married in nearby Neulußheim on 21 July 1756 to Maria Magdalena Brand, daughter of Andreas Brand from Hinterholz in Bavaria.
They immigrated first to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) and then to Russia where they settled in the colony of Beideck.
They are recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Household No. 16.