Hans Stahl, his wife Angelina, and children (Johann[es], age 20; Martin/Max, age 12; Margaretha, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Hans Stahl, his unnamed wife, and unnamed children are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Tarlyk on 13 August 1767. They are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 1 along with orphan Samuel Müller (age 16). The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Stahl and Müller families.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Hans Stahl came from the German region of Holstein. The 1767 census records that Johannes Stahl came from the German village of Hohenwestein [?] in the Holstein region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Stahl family among the Volga German colonies.
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Brent Mai