Jakob Staub, a single painter (Kunstmaler), arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 27 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Слон (Slon - Elephant in Russian) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov along with his brother-in-law Gottfried Maas. [See Maas Family.]
He settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 12 May 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 127 along with his [new] wife Dorothea.
His widow and children (August, age 24; Katharina, age 20; Johannes, age 15) are recorded on the 1798 census of Hildmann in Household No. Hd30.
Johannes Staub (age 51) and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Hildmann in Household No. 46.
The death of Johannes Staub in 1840 is recorded on the 1850 census of Hildmann in Household No. 1.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Staub came from the German region of Trier. The 1767 census records that Jakob Staub came from the German village of Mittelholz in the Kurtrier region.
- 1834 Hildmann Census (Household No. 46).
- 1850 Hildmann Census (Household No. 1).
- 1857 Hildmann Census (Households No. 8, 9, 10).
- 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): 113.
- 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): Hd30.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 437.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #607.
Brent Mai