An article by Wilhelm Funk records the following going to Russia:
Paulus Oberndörfer, a baker (Beck), son of Andreas Oberndörfer, a baker (Beck) and innkeeper (Wirth) in Eltersdorf, Lutheran, and Anna Maria Frey, daughter of the deceased Nicol. Frey, a master tailor (Schneidermeister) in Amberg, Catholic, were married on 7 May 1766 in the Lutheran Church in Wöhrd.
Paul Obendörfer, a baker (Bäcker), and his wife Maria Anna 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.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Tarlyk on 5 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 38.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Paul Obendörfer came from the German region of Bayreuth while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Eltersdorf near Erlangen in the region of Nürnberg.
- Funk, Wilhelm. "Deutsche a Is russische Colonisten: ausgezogen aus dem Wöhrder Traubuch 1766/67." Blätter für fränkische Familienkunde, 1:3 (1926): 101-107.
- 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): St33.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #799.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 213.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5822.
Brent Mai