Andrea Spahn, a farmer, and his wife Fransisca arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Pfeifer on 20 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 61 along with his new wife, Katharina, and orphan Klara Heim (age 9), daughter of the deceased Philipp Heim. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Spahn and Heim families.
In 1791, Nikolaus Spahn moved from Paulskaya [sic] to Göbel. Nikolaus Spahn from Pfeifer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Göbel in Household No. Gb35.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Spahn came from the German region of the Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Andreas Spahn came from the German village of Schönborn [?] in the Pfalz region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 648.
- 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): Gb35, Pf27, Pf57, Mv2259.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 392.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5204.
Brent Mai