Simon Herrnthaller, a single locksmith (Schlosser), arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Лапоминк (Lapomink - a Russian river) under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Krykov.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Leitsinger on 12 May 1767 where he is recorded along with his new wife and newborn son in Household No. 25.
In 1787, Andreas Herrenstahler [sic] and his family moved from Graf to Schönchen.
Andreas Simon Herrenstahler [sic] from Graf is recorded on the 1798 census of Schönchen in Household No. Sn30 with a note that he was working as the schoolmaster in the colony of Zug.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Simon Herrnthaller came from the German region of the Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Andreas Simon Herrnthaller came from the German village of Kretz in the Pfalz region.
There do not appear to be any surviving male descendants of this 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): 91.
- 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): Sn30, Mv0719.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 68.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #396.
Brent Mai