Dietrich Stahlmann, a coppersmith, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Maria Sophia under the command of Skipper Johann Bauert.
The parish register of Schilling records the birth of Margaretha Sophia Stahlmann, daughter of Friedrich [sic] Stahlmann & Maria Magdalena Hoff, on 23 July 1767 on the Volga River near Saratov while en route to the colonies.
Friedrich [sic] Stahlmann, a boilermaker (Kesselschmied), his wife Maria, and daughter Margaretha Sophia (age 4-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Laub in Household No. 36. They had settled there on 19 August 1767.
Dietrich Stahlmann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb44.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Dietrich Stahlmann came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census of Laub records that Friedrich Stahlmann came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 342.
- 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): Lb44.
- Parish register of Schilling.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 28.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2550.
Brent Mai
Habermann (Wolgadeutsche.net Forum)