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Johannes Jäger was a soldier in the Napoleonic Army that invaded Russia.

He was an infantryman and was captured by the Russians.

Milovidov records that as of 1814 his father, mother, a brother, and two sisters were still living the the German village of Obermeinau.

He was settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar.

Milovidov records that Johannes Jäger came from the German town of Obermeinau in the region of Westfalen.

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

Heinrich Schröder was a soldier in the Napoleonic Army that invaded Russia.

He was an infantryman and was captured by the Russians.

Milovidov records that as of 1814 his father, mother, two sisters, and two brothers were still living in the German city of Magdeburg.

He was settled in the Volga German colony of Schwed in the household of Gottfried [sic] Gorr.

Milovidov records that Heinrich Schröder came from the German town of Magdeburg in the region of Westfalen.

Friedrich Müller is recorded on the 1834 census of Beauregard in Household No. 48 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Fischer in 1819. 

Johann Friedrich Müller is recorded on the 1834 census of Fischer in Household No. 31 along with a note that he had arrived there from Beauregard in 1829.

Georg Zeisler, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Maria Sophia under the command of Skipper Johann Bauert.

Johann Georg Sessler, a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Hölzel in Household No. 50.

The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Sessler came from the German village of Hölzern in the Württemberg region.

The movement tables accompanying the 1798 census of Dinkel record that maidens Margaretha & Dorothea Stelting and Dorothea & Louisa Christophel [Christoph] were adopted in Laub in 1790. A relationship between the Stelting and Christoph families, if any, is not recorded.

Margaretha Magdalena Stelting, adopted daughter of Christian Horn, is recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb02.

Dorothea Stelting, adopted daughter of Mattias Kuhlmann, is recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb38.