Johann[es] Sittner and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 June 1766 aboard a boat named Северный Орел (Northern Eagle) under the command of Lieutenant Peter Malenkov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Enders on 15 July 1767. Johannes Sittner is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 37 in Household No. 37 along with his new wife Katharina.
Heinrich Sittner from Enders and his family are recorded on the 1862 census of Gnadendorf.
Daniel Sittner from Enders and his family are recorded on the 1862 census of Gnadendorf.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Sittner was a stonemason from Isenburg. The 1767 census records that Johannes Sittner was a farmer from the German village of Büdingen in the Isenburg region.
- 1862 Gnadendorf Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 185.
- 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): En24.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 392.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #1229.
Brent Mai