Johann Michael Sinner, son of Christian Sinner, was baptized on 25 April 1717 in Rinderbügen, northeast of Büdingen. He married Erneseine Knab.
Johann Michael Sinner & Erneseine Knab had at least the following children whose baptisms are recorded in Rinderbügen: (1) Louisa Juliana, baptized 22 January 1747; and (2) Johann Wilhelm, baptized 12 May 1755.
Erneseine Sinner née Knab died 29 April 1759 in Rinderbügen. Johann Michael Sinner remarried to Anna Margaretha Hargearoder.
He, his wife Anna, and three children (Catharina, age 20; Martin, age 15; Wilhelm, age 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Schilling and are recorded there on the 1775 census in Household No. 69.
Michael's widow is recorded on the 1798 census of Schilling in Household No. Sg072, and son Martin is recorded there in Household No. Sg073 along with a note that Martin's son Heinrich is working in Stahl am Tarlyk.
Heinrich Sinner from Schilling is recorded on the 1811 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. 14 along with a note that he arrived in Stahl am Tarlyk from Schilling in 1802.
The death of Heinrich Sinner in 1834 is recorded on the 1834 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. 17. The death of Heinrich's brother Konrad in 1818 is recorded on the 1834 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. 61.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael Sinner came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1775 Schilling Census (Household No. 69).
- 1811 Stahl am Tarlyk Census (Household No. 14).
- 1834 Schilling Census (Household No. 17, 61).
- 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): Sg072, Sg073.
- Parish register of Rinderbügen.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1631.
Gary Martens
Brent Mai