Johann Jakob Schindler, a carpenter (Tischler), his wife Anna, and sons (Johann, age 4; Balthasar, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Tarlyk on 5 September 1767 where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 51.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Schindler came from the German regionof Storf [?]. The 1767 census records that Johann Jakob Schindler came from the German village of Altdorf near Nürnberg.
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