Spahn (Nieder-Monjou / Paulskaya)

There are 2 Spahn families that arrived together from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax, traveled together from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767, and settled together in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 7 June 1767. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

(1) Nikolaus Spahn & Anna Elisabeth Rieffer were married on 22 May 1766 in the Reformed Church in Lübeck.

Nikolaus Spahn, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived in Oranienbaum.

Nikolaus Spahn and his wife Anna Elisabeth are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Anna Elisabeth died en route.

Nikolaus Spahn and his new wife Eva are recorded on the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 37. They had settled there on 7 June 1767.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Spahn came from the German region of Hanau. The 1767 records that he came from the German region of Hannover.

(2) Heinrich Spahn, a single man, 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.

Heinrich Spahn is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Heinrich Spahn is recorded on the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 86 along with a note that he relocated to the Volga German colony of Paulskaya in 1768.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Spahn was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a mason (Maurer).

Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census records that Heinrich Spahn came from the German region of Hanau.