Johannes Österlein, a farmer, his wife Sophia [widow of Peter Blumberger], and daughter Dorothea (age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 4 along with stepdaughter Anna Blumberger (age 4). They had settled there on 7 June 1767.
Dorothea Mattern née Österlein and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. Om30.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Österlein came from the German region of Karling.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Österlein family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Om30.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 290.
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