Johann Wilhelm Sittner and Anna Maria Jäger, daughter of Christian Jäger, were married in Büdingen on 19 November 1748. The baptisms of seven of their children are recorded in the Büdingen parish records: (1) Johann Georg, 13 April 1749; (2) Catharina Elisabetha, 24 January 1751; (3) Johannes, 24 December 1752; (4) Johann Heinrich, 17 August 1755; (5) Maria Catharina, 6 October 1757; (6) Johann Philipp, 10 August 1760; and (7) Heinrich, November 1761.
Wilhelm Sittner, a stonemason, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 19; Johannes, age 15; Katharina, age 10¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
Anna Maria and Johann Georg must have died at some point between their arrival in Russia and reaching the Volga German colonies. The surviving family members, along with Georg’s [new] wife Kuniginde (Götz) and her mother, settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 7 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census of Huck in Household No. 40.
In 1794, Adam Sittner moved from Huck to Dinkel.
Descendants of this family also lived in Ernestinendorf, Nieder-Monjou, Norka, and Brunnental.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Wilhelm Sittner came from the German region of Isenburg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 408.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Dn23, Hk36, Hk41, Hk81, Mv0983.
- Parish register of Büdingen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 150.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3159.
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