Konrad Heinrich Breitenstein, a tailor (Sartor) from Niederklein and son of Heinrich Breitenstein (died 12 February 1746), married 26 July 1729 to Maria Magdalena Roth from Dettingen am Main, daughter of Mathias (died 18 September 1738) & Maria Clementina Roth. [Maria Magdlena Roth had been born 23 October 1707 in Dettingen.]
The parish register of Dettingen records the baptisms of the following children born to Konrad Breitenstein & Maria Magdalena Roth: (1) Anna Margaretha, born in April 1732; (2) Maria Barbara, born 4 October 1735; (3) Georg Franz, born 7 May 1739; and (4) Anton, born 13 February 1742.
The parish register of St. Mary's Lutheran Church in Büdingen records the marriage of Anton Breitenstein and Maria Katharina Schwager on 10 March 1766.
Anton Breitenstein, a farmer, and his wife Katharina 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.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Göbel on 25 May 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 29 along with his new wife Margaretha and her sisters (Anna Maria, age 13; Elisabeth, age 10) [surname not recorded].
Christian Breitenstein and his siblings are recorded on the 1798 census of Göbel in Household No. Gb23.
The 1834 census of Göbel records in Household No. 129 that Johannes Breitenstein and his family moved from Göbel to Preuss in 1829. They are recorded on the 1834 census of Preuss in Household No. 80.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anton Breitenstein came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Anton Breitenstein came from the German village of Tating in the Kurmainz region.
- 1834 Göbel Census (Household No. 129).
- 1834 Preuss Census (Household No. 80).
- 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): 110.
- 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): Gb23.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #397.
- Parish register of Dettingen am Main.
- Parish register of Saints Blasius & Elisabeth Catholic Church in Niederklein.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 45.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #582.
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