Wilhelm Pinäkenstein, a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a barque named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Bangert on 1 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 4.
Ägidius Pinekenstein, son of Wilhelm Pinekenstein, is recorded on the 1798 census of Bangert in Household No. Bg07.
Anna Eva Pinekenstein, daughter of Wilhelm Pinekenstein, married Christoph Baute in 1790. They are recorded on the 1798 census of Lauwe in Household No. Lw13.
Some translations of the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census errantly record his name as Wilhelm Benedict Stehm.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Wilhelm Pinäkenstein came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Wilhelm Pinäkenstein came from the German village of Frauenstein in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 433.
- 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): Bg07, Lw13, Mv0104.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 106.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3372.
Brent Mai