Johann Stappelfeld, a medical man (Russian = фельдшер or врач; German = Artz), his wife Anna Katharina, and daughter Anna Katharina (age 21) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a Danish galliot named Der Engel Rafael (Archangel Raphael) under the command of Skipper Ehlert Kongsted.
Joh. Joachim Stappelfeld, his wife Anna Cathrina, and daughter Anna Cathrina (age 23) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Joachim Stappelfeld, a physician (Artz), and his wife Anna Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. 35. They had settled there on 5 September 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Joachim Stappelfeld came from the German region of Holstein. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Neu-Münster in the region of Holstein.
There are no known surviving male descendants of this family among the Volga German colonies.
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