Johann Ösperlein [sic], a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johann, age 12; Dorothea, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Johann Esperleyn, his wife Elisabeta, and children (Johannes, age 12; Dorothea, age 10) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johannes Österlein, a farmer, his wife Sophia [widow of Peter Blumberger], and daughter Dorothea (age 10) 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.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 200.
- 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.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1356.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1338-1341.
Brent Mai