Johann Friedrich Stieglitz & Maria Sophie Müller were married on 8 May 1766 in Roßlau.
Friedrich Stieglitz, a baker (Bäcker), his wife Maria Sophia, and [step-]son Daniel [sic] [Müller] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard the ship named Nordstern (North Star) under the command of Skipper Detlev Behling.
Fridrich Stigelitz, his wife Maria Sophia, and son Johann Gottfried [sic] (age 15) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Lauwe on 19 August 1767 and his wife died there on 9 November 1767.
Widower Friedrich Stieglitz and stepson Friedrich Müller are recorded on the 1767 census of Lauwe in Household No. 51.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Friedrich Stieglitz came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Friedrich Stieglitz came from the German village of Sangerhausen in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
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Brent Mai