[Johann] Wilhelm Schultheis, a farmer, his wife Katharina, his brother Johann Heinrich, and sister Anna Elisabeth (age 18) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Slon (Elephant) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kraft on 18 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 30.
Brother Johann Heinrich Schultheis is recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 73 along with the family of his father-in-law Balthasar Busch.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Wilhelm Schultheis came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that Johann Wilhelm Schultheis came from the German village of Stammheim in the Isenburg region.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 73).
- 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): 516.
- 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): Gm086, Kf57.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 401.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4054, #4055.
Brent Mai