Joseph Sentmeier, his wife Anna, and children (Maria, age 17¼; Johann, age 12; Ludwigus, age 10¼; Georg, age 6; Friedrika, age 4; Heinrich, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Andreas Sentmeier (age 14) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 11 along with his stepfather Simon Mittelmeier. A note records that the all relocated to the colony of Schönchen in 1768.
The 1767 census does not record from where Andreas Sentmeier came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Sentmeier family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 35.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 884.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 326.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7224.
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