Kaspar Schultheis, a farmer, his wife Margaretha Elisabeth, and daughter Charlotta Christina (age 1¾) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Slon (Elephant) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kraft on 18 August 1767. Widow Margaretha Schultheis is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 34.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Kaspar Schultheis came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Margaretha Schultheis came from the German village of Holzhausen in the Darmstadt region.
There are no known surviving male descendants of this Schultheis family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 522.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 402.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4107.
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