The parish register of St. Michael Catholic Church in Pietenfeld records the baptism of the following children born to Wilibald & Anna Maria Staudacker: (1) Bonifacius, baptized 27 May 1740; (2) Anna, baptized 28 September 1741; (3) Philipp, baptized 26 April 1744; (4) Johannes, baptized 25 June 1746; (5) Walpurga, baptized 2 November 1747; (6) Maria, baptized 13 April 1749; (7) Elisabetha, baptized 21 July 1751; (8) Anastasia, baptized 11 July 1753; (9) Anton, baptized 13 June 1755; and (10) Mathias, baptized 20 September 1757.
Wilibald Staudacker died 18 January 1765 at the age of 59.
The parish register of St. Michael Catholic Church in Pietenfeld records the marriage of Boniface Staudacker on 12 February 1766 to Magdalena Scholl, daughter of Michael & Barbara Scholl.
Bonifacius Standacher [sic], a tailor (Schneider), and his [new] wife Rosina Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
Bonifacius Staudacher is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Bonifacius Staudacher (age 29), a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Rosina Katharina (age 23) are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 72. They had arrived in Seelmann on 15 July 1767.
This surname appears as Staudacker on most subsequent documentation.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Bonifazius Standacher [sic] came from the German village of Eckstedt [Eichstätt].
- 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): 270.
- 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): Sm20, Sm32, Sm34.
- Parish register of St. Michael Catholic Church in Pietenfeld.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 162.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1953.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1531.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the parish register of St. Michael Catholic Church in Pietenfeld recording the baptism of Bonifacius Staudacker on 27 May 1740.
Source: Anonymous2.
Entry from the parish register of St. Michael Catholic Church in Pietenfeld recording the marriage of Boniface Staudacker & Magdalena Scholl on 12 February 1766.
Source: Anonymous2.