Peter Stupp, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Peter Stupp, his wife Anna Christina, and children (Heinrich Wilhelm, age 9; Johann Heinrich, age 5; Elisabeth, age 3) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Elisabeth died en route.
Peter Stupp, a farmer, his wife Anna, and sons (Heinrich Wilhelm, age 12; Johann Heinrich, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 51. They had settled in Kaneau on 23 July 1767.
Peter Stupp, his wife, and daughters are recorded on the 1798 census of Kaneau in Household No. Kn11.
The 1767 census records that Peter Stupp came from the German village of Gondorf. This Gondorf could be today what is called Kobern-Gondorf, southwest of Braunfels.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Kn11.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 255.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7181.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8655-8659.
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