Johann Martin Sternagel, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughters (Katharina, age 18; Elisabeth, age 16) 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 Kraft on 18 August 1767 and is recorded there as a widower on the 1767 census in Household No. 46 along with the family of his son-in-law Johann Schmidt. [See Schmidt Family.]
Martin Sternagel (age 82) and his wife Katharina Elisabeth [surname not recorded] (age 65) are recorded on the 1798 census of Kraft in Household No. Kf24.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Martin Sternagel came from the German region of Hannover.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Sternagel family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 638.
- 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): Kf24.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 405.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5122.
Brent Mai