Wilhelm Stamm, a single farmer, 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.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Frank in 1767 and is recorded there (age 21) on the 1767 census in Household No. 27 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Walter in 1768.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Wilhelm Stamm came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that Wilhelm Stamm came from the German village of Obermundstadt in the Isenburg region. A village by this name has not been located near Isenburg; perhaps it is Ober-Mockstadt.
[There is a Wilhelm Bernhard Stamm, son of Johann Heinrich Stamm & Anna Margaretha Zimmer, whose baptism on 14 April 1736 is recorded in the parish register of Heegheim (just south of Ober-Mockstadt) - however, he would be 31 by the time of the 1767 census of Frank.]
Children of the deceased Wilhelm Stamm are recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt102, living with their mother's brother Georg Michael Ewald.
There are no known surviving male descendants of this Stamm 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): 102.
- 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): Wt102.
- Parish register of Ober-Mockstadt [Online].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 423.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #508.
Brent Mai