Balthasar Stadelmann (age 39), a farmer, his wife Margaretha Dolp (age 32), and children (Heinrich, age 4; Margaretha, age 1½) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms.
Balthasar Stadelmann, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Schuck on 18 June 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 18.
The 1765 Worms list records that Balthasar Stadelmann came from the German village of Wald near Gunzenhausen. The 1767 census records that Balthasar Stadelmann came from the German village of Gunzenhausen in the Ansbach region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 129-130 (#411-414).
- 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): Su27.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 114.
Brent Mai