Franz Späthoff [sic], a tailor (Schneider), his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johann Peter, age 10¼; Anna, age 6; Louisa, age 4; Johann, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Der Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Widow Anna Späthoff [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Peter Spitthof (age 11) is recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 61 as the stepson of Johannes Job. They had arrived in Keller on 11 August 1767.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that the Spitthoff family came from the German region of Köln.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Spitthoff family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 293-294.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 355.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2147.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1556.
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