Johannes (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 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Henrich Niemann.
They settled 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 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.
- 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): St57.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 205.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2097.
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