Johann Wilhelm Steinhauer, son of Wilhelm Steinhauer, was baptized 7 May 1752 in Wolfenhausen.
Johann Wilhelm Steinhauer, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard a ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
Johann Wilhelm Steinhauer is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Wilhelm Steinhauer, a single farmer, is recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 171 along with a note that he is working as a day-laborer (Lohnarbeiter). He had arrived in Warenburg on 12 May 1767.
The 1798 census of Bangert records Johann Wilhelm Steinhauer from Warenburg in Household No. Bg02.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Wilhelm Steinhauer came from the German region of Runkel. The 1767 census records that Johann Wilhelm Steinhauer came from the German village of Wolfenhausen [in the region of Runkel].
- 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): 279.
- 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): Bg02.
- Parish register of Wolfenhausen (LDS Film No. 1195145).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 347.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2029.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1791.
Wayne Bonner
Brent Mai