Smallam (Katharinenstadt)*

Kornelius Smallan [sic], a merchant, his wife Anna, and children (Samuel, age 7; Anna, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Cornelius Smallan [sic], his wife Anna Pastre, and children (Samuel, age 7; Anna, age 2) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Anna died en route.

Kornelius Stahlbaum [sic], a merchant (Kaufmann), his wife Anna, and son Samuel (age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 133. They had settled there on 7 June 1767.

Kornelius Smallam and his son Samuel (age 16) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 138 along with a note that he is beurlaubt [on leave] in Moscow.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Cornelius Smallan [sic] came from the town of Rotterdam. The 1767 census records that Kornelius Stahlbaum came from the Dutch town of Amsterdam in Holland and that his wife Anna came from the town of London in England. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Kornelius Smallam came from Ritterdam [Rotterdam] and that his son was born in London, England.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Stahlbaum family among the Volga German colonies.