Kaspar Steiger, a farmer, his wife Martha, and children (Katharina, age 15; Franz, age 12, Johann, age 10¼; Maria, age 6; Katharina, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard a ship named Die Perle under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
Orphans Katharina Steiger (age 14) & Franz Steiger (age 13), children of the deceased Kaspar Steiger, are recorded on the 1767 census of Leichtling in Household No. 36 along with the Bernhard Eder. The census does not record a relationship between the Steiger and Eder families.
Franz Steiger and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Leichtling in Household No. Lg46.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Kaspar Steiger came from the German region of Mainz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Steiger family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 165.
- 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): Lg46.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 59.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1058.
Brent Mai