Johann Georg Staffer [sic], a theology student, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen along with several other families that settled in Hussenbach.
Johann Georg Spürer is recorded on a list of those being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Georg Spierer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. Hs002.
The death of Georg Spierer in 1807 is recorded on the 1811 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 2.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Georg Staffer [sic] came from the German region of Hanau.
- 1811 Hussenbach Census (Household No. 2).
- 1834 Hussenbach Census (Households No. 27, 61).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 789.
- 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): Hs002.
- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga: 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): 7270.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6313.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8384.
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