Matthäus Achstädter married on 19 August 1726 in Königheim to Maria Margaretha Geiger.
The baptisms of the following children born to Matthäus Achstädter & Maria Margaretha Geiger are recorded in the parish register of Königheim: (1) Franciscus, born 16 March 1737; (2) Margaretha, born 5 July 1739; and (3) Valentinus, born 14 February 1742.
Families from this area who were preparing to migrate to Russia gathered in Landau. While in Landau:
Margaretha Achstädter married in 1764 to Josephus Nonnenmacher, son of Georg Naonnenmacher & Rosalia Rosbacher. He had been born 31 July 1730 in Amorbach.
Valentinus Achstädter married in 1764 to Anna Elisabetha Heiner, daughter of Johann Adam Heiner & Elisabetha Feuer. She had been born 12 August 1739 in Spechtbach.
These later two siblings do not appear to have migrated to Russia.
Franz Achstädter, a farmer, his wife Susanna, and daughter Anna Maria (age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 37. They had settled there on 18 July 1767.
The widow and daughter of Franz Achstädter are recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm15.
Johannes Achstädter is recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm34 along with his sister and brother-in-law Johannes Sauer.
Johann[es] Achstätter from Volmer is recorded on the 1811 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 35 along with a note that he had arrived in Neu-Kolonie from Volmer in 1811.
Johannes Achstätter and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 59.
Johannes Achstätter and his family are recorded on the 1850 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 106.
The death of Johannes Achstätter in 1855 is recorded on the 1857 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 116.
[Heironimus Ach]städter (age 15), presumed son of Franz Achstädter, is recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm01 along with the Brost family. The 1798 census does not record a relationship between the Brost and Achstädter families. Subsequent document identify this boy as Heironimus Achstädter.]
In 1832, Heronimous Hochstädter and his brother Georg moved to Rothammel. Heronimous Hochstädter and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Rothammel in Household No. 52.
The 1767 census of Volmer records that Franz Hochstädter came from the German village of Hardheim in the Würzburg region.
- 1811 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 35).
- 1834 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 59).
- 1834 Rothammel Census (Household No. 52).
- 1850 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 106).
- 1857 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 116).
- 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): Vm01, Vm15, Vm34.
- Parish register of Königheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 292.
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