Johann Georg Spielmann [Plehve records this surname as Thillmann], a farmer, his wife Anna Katharina, son Bartholomaeus (age 2-weeks), and mother Anna Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 August 1766 aboard a ship named Кир Иоанн (Cyrus John) under the command of Midshipman Gavriil Poddubskii.
Johann Georg Spielmann, his wife Anna Catrina, son Johann Bartholomeus (age ½), and widow Anna E. are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that widow Anna E. Spielmann died en route.
Johann Georg Spielmann, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Stephan on 24 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 32.
The widow and children of Johann Georg Spielmann are recorded on the 1798 census of Stephan in Household No. Sp37.
Bartholomeus Spielmann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Stephan in Household No. Sp38.
In 1796, Georg Spielmann moved from Stephan to Shcherbakovka.
Johann Georg Spielmann, presumed son of Johann Georg Spielmann, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Shcherbakovka in Household No. Sv37.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Georg Spielmann came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Spielmann came from the German village of Elbergen [?].
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- 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): Sv37, Sp37, Sp38, Mv2850.
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