[Heinrich] Wilhelm Spahn, a physician, his wife Wilhelmina, and son Franz (age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Maria Sophia under the command of Skipper Johann Bauert.
Heinrich Wilhelm Spahn and his wife Anna Eva settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Tarlyk on 5 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 40 along with his brother-in-law Johann Daniel Staff (age 10).
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Heinrich Wilhelm Spahn came from the German region of Magdeburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Spahn family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 342.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 213.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2547.
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