Anton Steinecker married on 6 November 1742 in Mayen to Katharina Werskirch.
The baptisms of the following children born to Anton Steinecker & Katharina Werskirch have been located: (1) Michael, baptized 24 August 1748 in Gappenach [southeast of Mayen]; (2) Johannes Wilhelm, baptized 25 December 1750 in Bergweiler [southwest of Mayen]; (3) Mathias, baptized 25 March 1754 in Kelberg [west of Mayen]; (4) Sophia, baptized 19 February 1759 in Cochem [south of Mayen]; and (5) unnamed child, baptized 26 July 1761 in Cochem.
Anton Steinecker, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Michael, age 18; Anna, age 16¼; Mattias, age 12; Maria, age 9; Gertrude, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Der Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Anton Steinecker (age 58), a farmer, his wife Katharina (age 58), and children (Michael; age 20; Mattias, age 14; Anna Sophia, age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Preuss in Household No. 100. They had arrived in Preuss on 15 July 1767.
In 1788, Mattias Steinecker moved from Preuss to Seelmann.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anton Steinecker came from the German region of Trier. The 1767 census records that Anton Steinecker came from the German village of Bassenheim in the Kurtrier [Electorate of Trier]. [Bassenheim is located just to the east of the villages in which these children were born.]
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 298.
- 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): Ps59, Sm37, Mv2340.
- Parish register of Bergweiler.
- Parish register of Gappenach.
- Parish register of Kelberg.
- Parish register of Mayen.
- Parish register of Saint Servatius Catholic Church in Cochem.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 431.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2186.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1592.
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