Anton Stein, a soldier (Soldat), and his wife Eva Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Husaren on 17 February 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 29.
There is an Anton Stein, a farmer, and his wife Eva who arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin. The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anton Stein came from the German region of Fulda.
The 1767 census records that Anton Stein came from the village of Dorfern in Austria.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Stein family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 104.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 171.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #526.
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