Johannes Spörlein married Margaretha Reinfeld.
The parish register of St. Kilian Catholic Church in Scheßlitz records the baptism of one son born to Johannes Spörlein & Margaretha Reinfeld of Wiesengeich: Johannes, baptized 1 September 1761.
Johannes Spörlein (senior) died 8 January 1763 in Wiesengiech.
Widow Margaretha Spörlein née Reinfeld remarried to Simon Lembach.
Simon Lembach [sic], a butcher (Fleischer), his wife Margaretha [widow of Johannes Spörlein], daughter Margaretha (age 2½), and [stepson] Johann [Spörlein] (age 5½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Drei Gebrüder (Three Brothers) under the command of Skipper Ludwig Münzenberg.
Simon Lembach [sic], his wife Margretha, and children (Johann [Spörlein], age 6; Margretha, age 2½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Spörlein (age 6) is recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 47 along with his step-father Simon Limbach.
Following the destruction of Leitsinger in 1774, Johannes Spehrlein settled in Neu-Kolonie.
In 1790, Johannes Spehrlein moved from Neu-Kolonie to Seelmann.
Johannes Spehrlein from Leitsinger and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Household No. Sm04.
The death in 1828 of Johannes Spehrlein is recorded on the 1834 census of Seelmann in Household No. 80.
Johannes Spehrlein, son of Johannes Spehrlein, and his family are recorded on the 1850 census of Seelmann in Household No. 50.
Johannes Spehrlein and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Seelmann in Household No. 64.
- 1834 Seelmann Census (Household No. 80).
- 1850 Seelmann Census (Household No. 50).
- 1857 Seelmann Census (Household No. 64).
- 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): 728.
- 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): Sm04, Mv1877.
- Parish register of St. Kilian Catholic Church in Scheßlitz.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 71.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5820.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6558-6561.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the parish register of St. Kilian Catholic Church in Scheßlitz recording the baptism of Johannes Spörlein on 1 September 1761.
Source: Anonymous2.
Entry from the parish register of St. Kilian Catholic Church in Scheßlitz recording the death of Johannes Spörlein (senior) on 8 January 1763.
Source: Anonymous2.